The opportunity for simplicity, dispensing with theoretically essential grammatical elements and answering, “Yes, I did,” when someone asks, “Did you buy the car?” is one of the features that give ...

Brazil's Constitution has been translated for the first time into the indigenous Nheengatu language. The new version of the 35-year-old document was released Wednesday, Agencia Brasil reported.

There are a total of 228 languages spoken throughout Brazil. Many of those are the languages of indigenous people. Only 11 ...

Brazilian authorities announced this week that the Constitution of South America's largest country, originally penned in Portuguese, would be translated into the languages of the indigenous tribes ...

Heloisa Daher's family is of Syrian and Lebanese descent but they insisted she only speak Portuguese "Look forward, not backward," is what farmer Heloisa Daher was often told by her family of ...

Dr Jo-Anne Ferreira, senior lecturer in linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (DMLL) at The ...