Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990

The orthography Convention 1990 Portuguese (Portuguese acordo ortográfico de 1990) is a document signed in 1990 international agreement, which should produce a unified orthography of Portuguese, which is used in the community of Portuguese -speaking countries. It was signed by official representatives from Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea- Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Principe in Lisbon on 16 December 1990. Upon its independence, also Timor -Leste joined in 2004. During the negotiations on the Agreement also an observer delegation from Galicia was present.

The Convention should put the existence of two different spelling standards an end to, and the other Lusophone countries on the other hand, were in Brazil on the one hand and Portugal, so also, as stated in Article 1 of the Agreement, to increase the international prestige of the Portuguese language.

The acquisition of the new spelling is in Portugal, the Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, East Timor and Macao affect about 1.6 % and about 0.5% of the words all words in the Brazilian.

The adoption of the Convention was brought about by consensus between linguists, philologists, academics, journalists, writers, translators and personalities from the fields of the arts, academia, politics and the economy of various countries.

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The rules of the 1990 Agreement entered into Brazil on 1 January 2009; their acquisition is also in Portugal and the other Lusophone countries in progress.