One of the most significant differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese Portuguese The Portuguese people's heritage largely derives from the pre-Roman Indo-European (Lusitanians, Conii) and Celtic peoples (Gallaecians, Turduli and Celtici), who were later Romanized after the conquest of the region by the ancient Romans. https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Portuguese_people Portuguese people - Wikipedia is the placement and use of object pronouns. In European Portuguese, pronouns come after the verb, while in Brazilian Portuguese the pronoun comes before. In Portuguese (like Spanish), pronouns are different depending on formality.