{"id":3888,"date":"2025-05-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T11:58:50","slug":"world-portuguese-language-day-5-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2025\/05\/05\/world-portuguese-language-day-5-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"World Portuguese Language Day (5 May 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Post submitted by Ella, one of our Student Experience Ambassadors<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"801\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/05\/World-Portuguese-Language-Banner_0-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3897\" style=\"width:463px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/05\/World-Portuguese-Language-Banner_0-1.jpg 874w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/05\/World-Portuguese-Language-Banner_0-1-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/05\/World-Portuguese-Language-Banner_0-1-768x704.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo: UNESCO<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Portuguese is a Romance language that spread across the world during the 15th and 16th centuries through the Portuguese colonial empire. Although it is a language predominantly spoken in South America, the Portuguese language boasts around 200 million native speakers and is consequently ranked fifth among world languages in number of native speakers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries is the international organisation that unites the eight independent countries that have Portuguese as their official language. In 2009, the Community established the 5th May as a day to celebrate the Portuguese language and Lusophone cultures. In 2019, UNESCO also recognised this day as World Portuguese Language Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The day is a vibrant occasion dedicated to the Portuguese language and culture, celebrating the rich linguistic and cultural heritage shared by Portuguese-speaking countries across the world. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post submitted by Ella, one of our Student Experience Ambassadors Portuguese is a Romance language that spread across the world during the 15th and 16th centuries through the Portuguese colonial empire. Although it is a language predominantly spoken in South America, the Portuguese language boasts around 200 million native speakers and is consequently ranked fifth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2025\/05\/05\/world-portuguese-language-day-5-may-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World Portuguese Language Day (5 May 2025)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":3897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","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\/557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3898,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions\/3898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}