ИСТИНА

Portuguese is still insufficiently studied, it is often treated as an exotic or small language, which is not justified, given its place in the world and the degree of its distribution: about 240 million speakers, 7th place in the ranking of world languages, the status as the official language in 9 countries belonging to the community of Lusophony. At present, the status and prospects of the Portuguese language are determined, inter alia, by the completion of the implementation of the Spelling agreement, which for the first time creates a single language space (at least with regard to its written form), and, of course, by the dynamic development and growing importance of Portuguese-speaking countries: first of all, of course, Brazil, but also African countries, especially Angola and Mozambique.