Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Viana (; 1840–1914)
[ was a Portuguese writer and orientalist, who led a committee that made ]reforms of Portuguese orthography
The Portuguese language began to be used regularly in documents and poetry around the 12th century. Unlike neighboring Romance languages that adopted formal orthographies by the 18th century, the Portuguese language did not have a uniform spellin ...
to make it more phonetic.[
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Biography
Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Viana was born in Lisbon
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in 1840. His father, who was an actor, and his brother died of yellow fever
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in 1857. Viana had to concentrate on earning money to support his family.[
He continued his studies, first studying Greek and then ]Sanskrit
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under Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu (1842-1907) was a Portuguese writer, cartographer and orientalist.
Biography
Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu was born in Coimbra in 1842. Abreu spent a lifetime studying languages. He travelled to Brazil and went on s ...
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He led the commission that advised on how the spelling of Portuguese should be reformed.[Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves Viana]
cvc.instituto-camoes.pt. Retrieved April 2010. This change was successfully made, but created a schism with Brazil
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which continued to use the traditional spelling.
Selected works
*1897; ''Selecta Easy English Readings''
*1897; ''Grammar English''
*1907; ''French Grammar''
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1840 births
1914 deaths
Portuguese male writers
Portuguese orientalists
People from Lisbon
19th-century Portuguese writers
19th-century male writers