Portal:Latin America/Did you know/Week 43, 2006

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 * ...that Brazilian Portuguese is written with different spelling from European Portuguese? (logo of the Museum of the Portuguese Language pictured)
 * ...that Haitian creole, unlike French, has no grammatical gender?
 * ...that Riverense Portuñol language is a mixed language spoken on the Brazil-Uruguay border?
 * ...that in Chipilo, Mexico, people speak a dialect of Venetian?
 * ...that, although Romance languages predominate over Latin America, Aymara and Quechua are both official languages in certain countries in the region?