Talk:List of countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language

message: I do have one more comment, though (at least):
:A strong romanization led to the complete extinction of all the former native languages, as planned by Roman Emperors such as Caesar Augustus.
What is the source for claiming that Augustus or other Roman emperors actually planned the extinction of the local languages? I had never heard about this. FilipeS 19:19, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Extiction of Iberian languages planned?

message: Thanks for the explanation on "home language". Were the línguas gerais really pidgins, though? FilipeS 19:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Linguas Gerais Pidgins?

message: :Although they can understand Portuguese from Brazilian T.V. stations, locals still want to learn standard European Portuguese (including some Chinese), as do East Timor and the PALOP countries.
Needs to be sourced! FilipeS 19:59, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Type of Portuguese preferred by Africans

message: :The Portuguese language especially grew in use after the independence of Portugal's former [African] colonies. Independence movements from Guinea-Bissau to Mozambique saw it as an instrument to achieve their countries' development and national unity. The residents of these countries use the standard European Portuguese.
Are we sure about their using "the standard European Portuguese"? Certainly, Africans do not, generally, have a European pronunciation, and I know their Portuguese has much African vocabulary that European Portuguese does not. This should be checked. FilipeS 19:42, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Portuguese in Africa

message: Independence movements from Guinea-Bissau to Mozambique saw it as an instrument to achieve their countries' development and national unity. Azores and Madeira are among the regions where Portuguese is the official language. The residents of these countries use the standard European Portuguese.
Why are Azores and Madeira being listed as African regions? Aren't they part of Portugal/Europe? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ettiago (talk • contribs) 
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:The Ogre 15:52, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Anonymous user 195.23.216.224 reverted me arguing that "Geographically speaking (that's what we're talking here) Madeira is in the African Continent". I have reverted him arguing that "Madeira is not considered by the Portuguese governement or people to be in Africa - it is historicaly, politicaly, socialy and culturaly in Europe, even if it's technically in the African Plate". Hope that settles it. The Ogre 17:37, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Madeira and the Azores

message: The infobox data for Spain treats Galician as a variant of the Portuguese language. We should alter that, as it's blatant Portuguese POV (Galician is officially recognized as a separate language. Its classification as a dialect of Portuguese is disputed and mostly supported by the Portuguese linguist community only). Húsönd 13:56, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing Galician from the calculations 

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message: Malayalam language, spoken in Kerala in South India has many loan-words from Portuguese (please see Loan words in Malayalam).The association dates back to 1498, when Vasco Da Gama landed in kappad near Kozhikode in Kerala. Still, many such loan-words are part of everyday coversation in Malayalam. Can this get a mention under Asia section of this article ? Anish Viswa   05:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loaned words from Portuguese 

message: it is better to rename this page from 'Geographic distribution of Portuguese' to some other title having 'Portuguese' as the first word. It will help in having this page appear in searches starting with 'portug-'. Now people won't notice this article easily. Anish Viswa   01:06, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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message: In Namibia it is spoken by less than 2% of the population, though it is dying out
I doubt this information is reliable. The actual data that I introduced based on refugees from Urban Angolans was around 20%. Someone removed the zero, and added "dying out". But I dont longer known the online source, probably it no longer exists. So information from the present day would be much appreciated. -PedroPVZ 10:30, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Namibia

message: I changed the information of Brazil being the only lusophone country of the "Western Hemisphere" to being the only one in the Americas. Although some people call the American Continent "Western Hemisphere", this definition is far from being the most used. Among the traditional definitions, such as the Greenwich Meridian, Portugal is in the Western Hemisphere. Just saying Americas remove all the ambiguity of the term Western Hemisphere, excluding, with no doubt, all the other Lusophone nations. 177.182.211.237 (talk) 06:05, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Western Hemisphere

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