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Example sentences for: portuguese

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Portuguese was the immediate source of four words (the Portuguese, it will be recalled, were also in India for several centuries, losing their colony of Goa only in December 1961): copra , from Hindi khopra via Malayalam koppara; machila or machilla `hammock slung from a pole,' from Hindi manzil (borrowed unchanged from Arabic) via Tamil macil or mancil; tael `unit of weight,' from Hindi tola (adapted from Sanskrit tula ) via Malay tahil ; and jambolan `Java plum,' the English version of Portuguese jambulao , from Hindi jambul .
Separatists intensified their campaign in January when the Indonesian president announced that there would be a referendum on autonomy or independence in East Timor, but the Straits Times observed, "Amputation is out because Aceh is unquestionably a part of Indonesia, unlike the former Portuguese colony East Timor it invaded and then annexed in 1976."
So, for example, the varieties of Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.) are about as different as the Romance Languages (Portuguese, Spanish, etc.).
Near the centrally located Japan Railways station is the first sign of the Portuguese role in the city’s fascinating history.
"Or is East Timor defined not by geography and its own ethnicity but by its Portuguese past and the backgrounds of its independence activists?"