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European Portuguese, Portuguese of Portugal, Lusitanian Portuguese, or Continental Portuguese is the designation given to the original language spoken in Portugal and by Portuguese immigrants scattered around the world, encompassing its regional dialects, vocabulary, grammar, and spelling.
Source: tatoeba (11742487)
Lusitanian wines
Source: wiktionary
Eu vai, serves for "I go," "I went," or, "I will go." Adjectives, too, have been deprived of their feminine and plural terminations, so that the language is reduced to a marvellous simplicity, and, with the admixture of a few Malay words, becomes rather puzzling to one who has heard only the pure Lusitanian.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include ancient iberian, ancient lusitanian, archaic, cultural lusitanian, ethnic lusitanian.
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