In rural areas and even sometimes in towns and cities, you may have trouble communicating in standard Portuguese.

In the capital, Luanda, a very standard Portuguese is spoken, and tribal culture and languages are practically nonexistent.

In any case, reintegrationism considers that spoken Galician and all of its characteristic words, expressions, and pronunciation should not be radically substituted by standard Portuguese.

But it also hides the majority of the Brazilian population that speaks discredited varieties of Portuguese instead of the formal standard Portuguese taught in schools.

Before the Indian annexation of the territory, the Daman creole had become more similar to standard Portuguese.

The normal sentence structure of standard Portuguese (SP) is subject verb object (SVO).

In standard Portuguese, the conditional marker 'se' usually comes at the beginning of the utterance:

At that time, Macanese speakers were consciously using the language in opposition to the standard Portuguese of the metropolitan administration.

Starting in the late 19th century, its role in the life of the colony was greatly diminished by the central government's drive to establish standard Portuguese throughout its territories.

Due to the isolation of these settlements, the Florianopolitan dialect differs significantly from both standard European and South American Portuguese.