Why brazilians speak portugies?

Answer 1

Yes. Portuguese is the main spoken and the official, language of Brazil. For the country is a former colony of Portugal. In fact, its first known discovery by Europeans was on April 21, 1500. In that year, Pedro Alvares de Cabral [1467/1468/1469? - c. 1520] was charged by King Manuel I [May 31, 1469-December 13, 1521] with leading an expedition around southernmost Africa, and on through the Indian ocean to India. Cabral wanted to avoid the calm of the coast off the Gulf of Guinea. And so he had his fleet of 13 ships sail more southwestwardly through the Atlantic. But the course was so far to the southwest that the expedition ended up off the coast of the subsequent Brazil. And so throughout the 16th century, the Portuguese colonized Brazil while the rest of South America was settled under the commands and direction of the Spanish monarchy and its Spanish conquerors. But this division of South America into settlement by Spain, and settlement by Portugal, was not accidental. In fact, it was regulated by treaty. For the Treaty of Tordesillas, of 1497, divided the non-Christian world into zones of influence for Spain, and zones for Portugal. The line of division ran in such a way that Brazil could be claimed by Portugal, and the rest of South America by Spain. And Portuguese colonial control lasted three centuries. On September 7, 1822, Brazil declared independence from Portugal. Portugal didn't make the independence official until almost three years later, on August 29, 1825. But three centuries of colonial rule had defined the direction of the Brazilian economy, and the choice of the country's language of communications.

Answer 2

In the Treaty of Tordesillas (between Spain and Portugal), the two countries set out boundaries for where each country could colonize. Spain claimed most of South America, leaving the area that is today Brazil to the Portugese.

The people in the Spanish portion of South America today speak Spanish, while the people in the Portugese portion of South America (Brazil) now speak Portugese.
Portuguese is Brazil's national language because of the country's colonization by speakers of the Portuguese language of Portugal. Much of Latin America was colonized by speakers of the Spanish language of Spain. But Portuguese speakers settled in Brazil. In fact, the country's growth and development was shaped by Portuguese speakers during the critical 300 some years before Brazilian independence.

Answer 3

Portuguese is Brazil's national language because of the country's colonization by speakers of the Portuguese language of Portugal. Much of Latin America was colonized by speakers of the Spanish language of Spain. But Portuguese speakers settled in Brazil. In fact, the country's growth and development was shaped by Portuguese speakers during the critical 300 some years before Brazilian independence.

Answer 4

That their country is a former Portuguese colony is the reason why Brazilians speak Portuguese. The country was discovered, during an expedition led by Pedro Alvares Cabral (1467/1468/1469? to 1520?), on Saturday, April 21, 1500. Much of the rest of South America was settled under the direction of the Spanish monarchy and its conquistadores ("conquerors") of the New World. The division of areas to be settled by Spain and those by Portugal was undertaken deliberately, through the Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494.

The division ran sufficiently west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of Senegal, to give Brazil to Portugal. Portugal sustained colonization and socio-economic development of Brazil for three centuries, until Brazil took an independent course as of Saturday, Sept. 7, 1822. Portugal nevertheless was unwilling to make the status change official until Monday, Aug. 29, 1825.

Despite independence, Brazil remained a country whose future path was influenced by Portuguese colonization. Three centuries of colonialism sponsored the spread of Portuguese as the language that enough people spoke for it to become the new country's main spoken language and, ultimately, official language. It would be interesting to do the genealogies of the political and socio-economic elite in Brazil, as was done in the last half of the twentieth century by American sociologists regarding Chile, to see if many of them link to the original explorers and settlers during Brazil's colonial era.

Answer 5

For centuries Brazil was under Portuguese rule (c. 1500-1820).

Answer 6

The main language in Brazil is the Brazilian dialect of Portuguese; though many other indigenous languages are also spoken.

Answer 7

it depends on what language they are speaking

Answer 8

In Brazil, the official language is Portuguese, spoken by all inhabitants, except for some indian tribes.

Answer 9

Virtually everyone in Brazil speaks Portuguese, except for some remote native tribes. Portugese is the national language because Brazil was once a Portuguese colony.

Answer 10

chinese mixed with arab