Review article

https://doi.org/10.22210/strjez/51-1/3

Portuguese orthographic reform

Daliborka Sarić orcid.org/0000-0003-3562-078X ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Majda Bojić ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Abstract

This paper provides a short survey of the 1990 Portuguese orthographic reform, mandatory from 2015 (in Portugal) and 2016 (in Brazil), whose aim was to unify in a single normative document two previously used orthographies, one valid in Brazil and the other in Portugal and other Lusophone countries. The new Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement only partly unifies the previous two orthographic agreements as this new official orthography still allows variation in a number of cases which reflect some of the differences in the pronunciation of certain sounds. Besides the main orthographic innovations, the paper looks into some of the most prominent judgments on the orthographic reform appearing in the media and in professional texts during the still-ongoing public debate.

Keywords

European Portuguese; Brazilian Portuguese; spelling innovations; language ideological debates; unification

Hrčak ID:

278823

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278823

Publication date:

3.6.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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