Writing System
| Portugal and non-1990 Agreement countries | Brazil and 1990 Agreement countries | translation |
|---|---|---|
| direcção | direção | direction |
| óptimo | ótimo | best, excellent, optimal |
Portuguese is written with 26 letters of the Latin script, making use of five diacritics to denote stress, vowel height, contraction, nasalization, and other sound changes (acute accent, grave accent, circumflex accent, tilde, and cedilla). Accented characters and digraphs are not counted as separate letters for collation purposes.
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