LISBON, Portugal — Portugal's former empire is striking back — through language. As Brazil rises on the international stage and its one-time colonial master wanes, a proposed standardization of the ...

Described by Brazilian poet Olavo Bilac as “the last flower of Latium, wild and beautiful”, the Portuguese language is about to change. As of 1st January 2009, the reform of its spelling begins to be ...

LISBON – Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, said on Monday that Portugal maintains the goal of having Portuguese as an official language of the United Nations (UN), but that ...