{"id":2763,"date":"2023-05-05T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2023-04-27T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:00:59","slug":"world-portugese-language-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2023\/05\/05\/world-portugese-language-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Portugese Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Portuguese Language Day is set for the 5<sup>th<\/sup> of May. The observance was first established on July 20<sup>th<\/sup>, 2009. The date of 5<sup>th<\/sup> May was set to coincide with the date of the first meeting of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLC) in 2005. In 2019, the 40<sup>th<\/sup> session of the UNESCO General Conference decided to officially proclaim the date as World Portuguese Language Day, to be celebrated every year from then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/04\/download.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2764\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world, with more than 265 million speakers spread through all continents. It is also the most widely spoken language in the southern hemisphere. The day brings together Portuguese speakers in preserving their culture and identity and creating links with other Portuguese speakers around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-10.31.23-AM-1024x561.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-10.31.23-AM-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-10.31.23-AM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-10.31.23-AM-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-05-at-10.31.23-AM.png 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portuguese has its roots in Galician, which was a native language of a group who lived in the north of Portugal and the northwest of Spain. It was a mix of local dialects and common Latin, and after years of evolution Portuguese emerged as the descendant language around the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century. There are many variations of modern Portuguese spoken around the globe, such as in Brazil, where the majority of Lusophones (people who speak Portuguese) live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Feliz dia mundial da lingua portuguesa!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Portuguese Language Day is set for the 5th of May. The observance was first established on July 20th, 2009. The date of 5th May was set to coincide with the date of the first meeting of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLC) in 2005. In 2019, the 40th session of the UNESCO General &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2023\/05\/05\/world-portugese-language-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Portugese Language Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorative-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}