where does portuguese language come from?
Latin alphabet
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 With the notable exception of Brazil , a short scale country , most Portuguese @-@ language countries and regions use the long scale , for example : 

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 As an international language of learning and literature , Latin itself continued as an active medium of expression for diplomacy and for intellectual developments identified with Renaissance humanism up to the 17th century , and for law and the Roman Catholic Church to the present . 

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 After the decentralization of political power in late antiquity , Latin developed locally into branches that became the Romance languages , such as Spanish , Portuguese , French , Italian and Romanian , and a large number of minor languages and dialects . Today , more than 900 million people are native speakers worldwide . 

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 The Portuguese language was banned in East Timor and Indonesian was made the language of government , education and public commerce , and the Indonesian school curriculum was implemented . The official Indonesian national ideology , Pancasila , was applied to East Timor and government jobs were restricted to those holding certification in Pancasila training . East Timorese animist belief systems did not fit with Indonesia 's constitutional monotheism , resulting in mass conversions to Christianity . Portuguese clergy were replaced with Indonesian priests and Latin and Portuguese mass was replaced by Indonesian mass . Before the invasion , less than 30 percent of East Timorese were Roman Catholics , and by the 1980s , 80 percent were registered as Catholics . With a 90 percent Catholic population , East Timor is currently one of the most densely Catholic countries in the world . 

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 Differences in songs , genetics and morphology suggests that the Azores were colonised in a single invasion in the late Pleistocene , about 100 @,@ 000 years ago . It is likely that the initial colonisation was of the easternmost islands , with a subsequent spread to the central and western island groups from the western caldera of São Miguel , where both eastern and western song types are found . 
