A community page on Facebook, Língua Portuguesa: Uma Língua Global? [1] (Portuguese Language: A Global Language?) [pt], provides a diversity of materials to promote the debate about the expansion of Portuguese language and its consequences. Several critical issues on the policies of this language of around 200 million speakers are addressed, such as minority languages, multilinguism and linguistic colonialism.
Portuguese, a Global Language?
· Written by Sara Moreira
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