Are there different Portuguese dialects?
Portuguese has two main groups of dialects, mainly those from Portugal and those from Brazil. Other Portuguese dialects in other parts of the world more closely resemble European Portuguese. There are some differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese in vocabulary, pronunciation, and syntax, especially in colloquial languages. However, these differences are natural for international languages spoken in far-away territories, and are akin to the differences of the English spoken in the United States, England and Australia. Portuguese spoken in Brazil is the same language spoken in Portugal. However, a few words and expressions are written differently. For example, the term for “bus” can be “ônibus”, in Brazil, or “autocarro”, in Portugal. In the Portuguese speaking African countries, indigenous African languages are more widely spoken, although in Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, the most widely-spoken language is a the Portuguese based Creole. In East Timor the national
