PALMAS, Brazil – Guaricema Pataxo's indigenous roots are the cornerstone of her identity. The 53-year-old great-grandmother lives on her Pataxo people's reservation and makes a living by hawking their ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — There seems to be some confusion on what the main language spoken in Brazil is. Brazil is one of four countries in South America where Spanish is not the main language.

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.

The Brazilian language is one of the few countries in the world where Portuguese is the dominant language. Meanwhile, Spanish is spoken all over the worldwide, but both remain similar. Across the ...

A case identified during research by a federal appeal-court judge some 15 years ago illustrates the importance of the debate around linguistic diversity in the country. The sole official language of ...

Translation into Nheengatu hailed as a historical moment for the country and its native populations The Brazilian constitution has gained its first ever official translation into an Indigenous ...

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 ...

New opportunities in business, culture, education, trade, tourism and diplomacy with Brazil could open up for Kiwis with the launch of the country’s only tertiary-level Portuguese language programme ...