The Portuguese Language Page

On this page you will find links to a number of internet resources which may help you with your studies in Spanish language and linguistics. It is primarily intended for students of Portuguese Linguistics and Philology in the University of Cambridge, but others are warmly invited to use it.

Note that internet links may rapidly become obsolete. If you have any updates, modifications, additions or deletions to suggest, please e-mail me at cjp16@cam.ac.uk.

This page was last updated on 26 February 2003.

Dr Chris Pountain
Queens' College
Cambridge CB3 9ET

Portuguese Language: General

The Instituto Camões homepage: http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/
Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa, a page maintained by the Sociedade da Língua Portuguesa to deal with questions about usage: http://www.ciberduvidas.com/
Nossa Língua Portuguesa, a site containing information about usage based on a Brazilian TV series: http://www.tvcultura.com.br/resguia/portug/lingpor.htm
A site primarily designed for Brazilians learning English, but containing much useful information about points of contrast between English and Portuguese: http://www.sk.com.br/sk.html
A site containing many useful links concerning the Portuguese language: http://www.sk.com.br/sk-port.html

Sites from other Universities

University of Glasgow: http://www.portembassy.gla.ac.uk/PortLang/index.html
University of North Carolina: http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-52.html
University of Wisconsin: http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/portuguese.html

And from ours... the Portuguese Society's page of useful links: http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuport/links.htm

Portuguese Press

Avante
Diário de Notícias
Jornal da Madeira
Jornal de Notícias
O Globo
O Público
Universo Online

Portuguese dictionaries on line

The Priberam Informática on-line Dicionário Universal da Língua Portuguesa: http://www.priberam.pt/DLPO/
Other links can be found at http://www.oslo.sintef.no/portug/lex_ger.html

Portuguese encyclopaedias on line

Links can be found at http://www.oslo.sintef.no/portug/enciclopedias.html

Portuguese Texts

Many links to electronic corpora and texts can be found at http://www.oslo.sintef.no/portug/corpora.html
The Tycho Brahe Parsed Corpus of Historical Portuguese: http://www.ime.usp.br/~tycho/corpus/index.html
Processamento computacional do português: http://www.portugues.mct.pt/

Portuguese Language: history

The Instituto Camões History of Portuguese pages: http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/hlp/index.html
An outline history of the language with further weblinks: http://www.leca.ufrn.br/portugues/index.html

Special interest

Galician

Galician from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela: http://www.usc.es/~ilgas/

Creole

The Capeverdean Creole Institute hopemage: http://www.umassd.edu/specialprograms/caboverde/cciresources.html
Priberam Informática on-line dictionary of Caboverdiano (includes brief grammar and etymologies); this is a version of the Dictionnaire Étymologique Créole de Santiago-Français by Nicolas Quint-Abrial: http://www.priberam.pt/dcvpo/