As the fifth most spoken language in the world, Portuguese is often overlooked in the list of most spoken languages. It is well ahead of German, French, and Italian and just behind Arabic with 274 million speakers. After English and Spanish, it is the third most spoken language in the Americas and one of the top 10 in Africa.

For English or Spanish speakers, Portuguese will prove to be an easy language to learn. Pronunciation follows the way the words are written and most letters are pronounced the same as in English or Spanish. While there are a number of cognates (words which look and mean the same), you must be careful however, as some words take on entirely different meanings.

This dictionary pairs 10,700 English, Portuguese and Yoruba terms. It also includes a guide to the English, Portuguese and Yoruba alphabet and pronunciation.Yoruba is a language of western Africa spoken by approximately 40 million people. It is one of the four official languages of Nigeria, along with English, Hausa and Igbo. It is spoken in southwest Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Togo, with a large diaspora in the UK, Brazil and the USA. Recent announcements in the press indicate that there are a enough speakers in Brazil to justify teaching in Yoruba in the schools.This dictionary is excerpted from Words R Us, a multi-lingual dictionary and thesaurus based on Wordnet developed by Princeton, University.

Proper names may or may not be translated between languages. Generally country names are translated, but personal names, place names, and trade names (products) are not. Some words may provide an alternate translation or transliteration, others may not.

This dictionary is derived from our Words R Us system, a derivative of WordNet. English Wordnet, originally created by Princeton University is a lexical database for the English language. It groups words in English into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides brief definitions and usage examples, and records a series of relationships between these sets of synonyms. WordNet can be viewed as both a combination dictionary and thesaurus.

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Publication Date: Dec. 28 2020
ISBN: 9798587671652
Page Count: 226
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 6" x 9"