Portal:Latin America/Did you know/Week 43, 2006

...that Brazilian Portuguese is written with different spelling from European Portuguese? (logo of the Museum of the Portuguese Language pictured)
...that Haitian creole, unlike French, has no grammatical gender?
...that Riverense Portuñol language is a mixed language spoken on the Brazil-Uruguay border?
...that in Chipilo, Mexico, people speak a dialect of Venetian?
...that, although Romance languages predominate over Latin America, Aymara and Quechua are both official languages in certain countries in the region?

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