Lusophone

Disseminated throughout the world, the Portuguese language was staying here and there.

It cannot be said in any language that it is an invention of the people who speak it. The opposite would be more accurate. She invents us.

The truth is that languages cannot have been born by convention since, in order to agree on its rules, men would need an earlier language.

LUSOPHONY
transcends the linguistic issue.

It is the priceless historical heritage
generated by an intercultural and interethnic dialogue,
anchored in a common language and
in the coexistence of several peoples over five centuries.

(...) We have the oldest stable borders in Europe, we are the third most spoken European language in the world and the most used language in the southern hemisphere.

Our identity has been affirmed over time, since the 12th century, from its capacity to enrich itself through contact with other identities and other cultures.

Lusophony is a complex web of differences. And, as Vieira said in his «Clavis Prophetarum», it is a prefiguration of the whole respect for the eminent dignity of all people.

If Europe is the natural place of Portugal, its historical place is, today, the Lusophone.

The Discoveries made us, constituted our time as historical adults, sealed our national identity.

Yes: the Word is a Creature;

therefore, it has its anatomy and its psychology, worthy of the love, respect and affection that deserves everything that it lives. You can't deal with words like you deal with stones.

Many Portuguese words, such as “saudade” and “alvoroço”, represent fundamental experiences that, phenomenologically studied, open the way to notions that stimulate the peculiarity of our thinking.

Universal only thought completely without expression.

From Europe's rectangle we have moved on to something totally different.

Now Portugal is the entire Portuguese-speaking territory.

Brazilians may call it Brazil and Mozambicans may call it Mozambique.

It is a homeland extended to all men.

There has to be (...) a message from the set, that is, there has to be something that expresses, in general, men who speak, in their various cultures and modalities, the Portuguese language.

I have no political or social feeling.
However, I have, in a sense, a high patriotic feeling.

My homeland is the Portuguese language.

Nothing would weigh me down if they invaded or took over Portugal, as long as they didn't bother me personally.
But I hate it, with real hatred, with the only hatred I feel, (...) the poorly written page (...), the wrong syntax (...)

Yes, because the spelling is also people. The word is completely seen and heard.