BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let’s learn different languages/dialects together. I created this for educational purposes to spread awareness that we are diverse as a planet. Special Thanks to Diego Oliveira Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil / Português brasileiro) Native to: Brazil Native speakers: 211,000,000 (2020) Language family: Indo-European (Romance) According to many contemporary Brazilian linguists (Bortoni, Kato, Mattos e Silva, Perini and Bagno), Brazilian Portuguese is a highly diglossic language. This theory claims that there is an L-variant (termed “Brazilian Vernacular“), which emcompasses a variety of sociological registers that are the mother tongue of all Brazilians, and an H-variant (standard Brazilian Portuguese) acquired to varying extents through schooling, limited to the written language, and heard only when someone reads aloud a text strictly written according to the H-variant. Since there a