{"id":2377,"date":"2026-05-09T21:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:49:48","slug":"secretary-generals-message-on-world-portuguese-language-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2377","title":{"rendered":"Secretary-General&#8217;s message on World Portuguese Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/statements\/2026-05-05\/secretary-generals-message-world-portuguese-language-day\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Secretary-General&#039;s message on World Portuguese Language Day\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/sites\/default\/files\/image\/2026-01\/1200x628tw.png\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.un.org<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Secretary-General&#8217;s message on World Portuguese Language Day<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">On World Portuguese Language Day, we celebrate a language that has travelled widely and taken root in many societies.From Lisbon to Maputo, from S\u00e3o Paulo to Dili, it is a language constantly renewed by the 265 million people who speak it \u2013 and a place of belonging that no border can contain. As Corsino Fortes, a Cape Verdean writer and poet, said, language is the homeland we carry within us. That plurality is its greatest strength.In times of fragmentation, this matters greatly. A language spoken across four continents is, in itself, an exercise in dialogue.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}