The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Portuguese: Acordo Ortográfico da LĂngua Portuguesa de 1990 ) is an international treaty whose purpose is to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language. It was signed in Lisbon, on December 16, 1990, at the end of a negotiation, begun in 1980, between the Lisbon Science Academy and the Brazilian Academy of Letters. The signatories included official representatives from all of the Portuguese-language countries except East Timor, which was under Indonesian occupation at the time, but later adhered to the Agreement, in 2004.
Galicia was invited to take part in the reform but the Galician government ignored the invitation, since it regards Galician and Portuguese as different languages. However, an unofficial commission formed by Galician linguists who support the unity of the language attended the meetings as observers.
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