Extension aims to align the Brazilian schedule with that of other countries, such as Portugal.
The mandatory validity of the new Orthographic Agreement for the Portuguese Language was postponed by the Brazilian government for another three years. The full implementation of the new spelling was scheduled for January 1, 2013, however, the Federal Government postponed it to January 1, 2016, a deadline also established by Portugal.
Signed in 1990 by seven nations of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and adopted in 2008 by the public and private, the Agreement aims to unify the rules of written Portuguese in all countries that have the Portuguese language as their language official. The orthographic reform also aims to improve cultural exchange, reduce the economic cost of producing and translating books, and facilitating bibliographic dissemination in these countries.
In this sense, the spelling of approximately 0.5% of the words in Portuguese had proposed changes, such as idea, believe and bilingual, which, with the mandatory use of the new Orthographic Agreement, started to be written without the acute accent, circumflex and umlaut, respectively. With the postponement, both current and predicted spellings are accepted, that is, the use of the new rules remains optional until the spelling reform takes effect.
By Wanja Borges
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/acordo-ortografico/novo-acordo-ortografico-podera-ser-adiado-para-2016.htm
