For smartphone users deep in the Amazon, sending a text message in the Nheengatu language just got easier - giving their endangered native tongue a better chance of survival in the digital age.

While in Brazil this week, Melissa Block has heard our local fixer Catherine Osborn use all kinds of greetings and salutations in conversations with people throughout the day. Osborn walks us through ...

Hey there fellow travelers, today we are looking at the country of Brazil. We have tourist information on visiting Brazil looking at the food of Brazil, the language of Brazil, the safety concerns of ...

A bill passed by Congress, permitting the use of foreign languages, including Yiddish, on Brazilian radio and television broadcasts, was vetoed today by President Humberto Castelo Branco. Marshal ...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva defended the fund's actions in changing language on Brazil's climate risks as part of an economic assessment after nearly 200 IMF ...

Two years ago, things were difficult for Levi Leite. A freshman on the Salem High boys’ soccer team who had moved to the United States from Brazil the year before, he barely spoke English, didn’t have ...

Tens of thousands of Brazilians gathered at Rio de Janeiro’s mega-festival Rock in Rio on Friday, with many staking out spots of artificial grass all day to hear the headliner, Katy Perry. As her ...

PALMERTON, Pa. - In Portuguese, the language of Brazil, “Uai,” is a word of exclamation, much as “wow” is in English. So when Meiriane Pessoa and her husband, Soliney, of Whitehall, decided to open a ...

Faculty in the Department of Romance Languages approved a new Portuguese minor on Wednesday amid declining student interest in the department as a whole. The Portuguese minor, which will become ...