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Article: BRAZIL: AND ARABIC REACHED BRAZIL.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- August 2, 2007
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According to anba: During the Revolution of the Mal?s, in 1835, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, the African slaves who fought against the Brazilian government spoke Arabic. Muslim, they stood out among the others as they could write. This is so true that books and notes in Arabic found on them were considered proof for them to be arrested. This was one of the times in history in which Arabic and Portuguese met. Both languages also met during the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, by the Arabs. These moments and others will be the subject of a talk that professor and writer Jo?o Baptista de Medeiros Vargens is going to give on August 9th at the Arab-Syrian ...