Portuguese language in Brazil
The existence of Portuguese in Brazil is a legacy of the Portuguese colonization of the Americas. The first wave of Portuguese-speaking … 展开

The written Brazilian standard differs from the European one to about the same extent that written American English differs from written British English. The differences extend to spelling, lexicon, and grammar. However, with the entry into force of the Orthographic … 展开

Phonology
In many ways, Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is conservative in its phonology. This is also true of Angolan and São Tomean Portuguese, … 展开

The written language taught in Brazilian schools has historically been based by law on the standard of Portugal and until the 19th century, Portuguese writers often were regarded as models … 展开

The linguistic situation of the BP informal speech in relation to the standard language is controversial. There are authors (Bortoni, Kato, … 展开

Syntactic and morphological features
Topic-prominent language
Modern linguistic studies have shown that Brazilian Portuguese is a topic-prominent or topic- and subject … 展开

There are various differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese, such as the dropping of the second-person conjugations (and, in some dialects, of the 展开