Freelang Brazilian Veneto-English dictionary

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Brazilian Veneto : Stigmatized but still going strong

In the 1940s, the Brazilian president, Getulio Vargas, came up with a nationalization campaign to try and force non-Portuguese speakers who lived in Brazil to integrate into the Brazilian culture. To this effect, everyone was forbidden from speaking Brazilian Veneto in public places such as educational institutions and the media. This resulted in the stigmatization of the language up to now, even though the order was revoked in 2009. Despite the stigmatization, by 2006, the [...]

Brazilian Veneto is spoken in Brazil, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, where 3 million people out of a population of 11 million are of Italian ancestry. Brazilian Veneto derives from Venetian language, and came to Brazil with Italian immigrants from Venetia.

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Word list information

This dictionary was made by Renato B. Figueiredo.

Brazilian Veneto > English: 279 words
English > Brazilian Veneto: 172 words

Last update: March 21, 2014
First upload: April 9, 2008

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