Editing Pluricentric language (section)

=== Portuguese ===
Apart from the [[Reintegrationism|Galician question]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] varies mainly between [[Brazilian Portuguese]] and [[European Portuguese]] (also known as "Lusitanian Portuguese", "Standard Portuguese" or even "[[reduplication|Portuguese Portuguese]]"). Both varieties have undergone significant and divergent developments in phonology and the grammar of their [[pronominal]] systems. The result is that communication between the two varieties of the language without previous exposure can be occasionally difficult, although speakers of European Portuguese tend to understand Brazilian Portuguese better than vice versa, due to the heavy exposure to music, soap operas etc. from [[Brazil]]. Word ordering can be dramatically different between European and Brazilian Portuguese, without significantly hampering [[mutual intelligibility]].<ref name=HPL>{{cite book |first1=W. Leo |last1=Wetzels |first2=Sergio |last2=Menuzzi |first3=João |last3=Costa |title=The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |date=7 April 2016}}</ref>

A [[Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990|unified orthography]] for all the varieties (including a limited number of words with dual spelling) has been approved by the national legislatures of the Portuguese-speaking countries and is now official; see [[Spelling reforms of Portuguese]] for additional details. Formal written standards remain grammatically close to each other, despite some minor syntactic differences.

[[African Portuguese]] and [[Portuguese language in Asia|Asian Portuguese]] are based on the standard European dialect, but have undergone their own phonetic and grammatical developments, sometimes reminiscent of the spoken Brazilian variant. A number of [[creole language|creole]]s of Portuguese have developed in African countries, for example in [[Guinea-Bissau]] and on the island of [[São Tomé]].<ref name=HPL/>