Dr Carlos Figueiredo, a senior\ninstructor from the University of Macau\u2019s (UM) Department of Portuguese and the\ncoordinator of the Libolo Project, recently presented the Book of the Libolo\nProject at the ceremony of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries\n(CPLP) International Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture held in Beijing,\nat the invitation of the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in China.<\/p>
The Libolo Project covers the\nstudy of the linguistic, historical, and anthropological aspects of the Libolo Municipality\nin Angola\u2019s South Kwanza Province. It also allows for a better understanding of\nthe connections among this region, as well as the whole Angola, other African\nAtlantic Portuguese Speaking Countries, Brazil, and the Caribbean American\ncountries, because between the 16th century and the late 19th century,\nthousands of slaves were taken from Libolo to these places by Portuguese,\nDutch, English, and French slave ships. Composed of 18 scholars from nine\nuniversities in Macao, Brazil, and Angola, the project\u2019s team has been collecting\nand analysing oral data and rare manuscripts on the historical, anthropological,\nand linguistic aspects of the Libolo region. The studies that focus on the\nlanguage contact situation in Libolo between the Portuguese language and the\nAfrican Bantu language spoken in this region provide an opportunity to study\nand analyse the grammatical features exchanged between these two languages.<\/p>
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParticipants in the ceremony included diplomats from\nthe CPLP in China, Portuguese Finance Minister Dr M\u00e1rio Centeno, deputy secretary-generals\nof the Permanent Secretariat of Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation\nbetween China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries (Macao), representatives of the\nAssociation Macau-Angola, representatives of universities in China that offer\nPortuguese language courses, Chinese students who have received the Tom\u00e1s\nPereira Prize, and students from Portuguese-speaking Countries studying in\nChina. A total of 400 people attended the event.<\/p>
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