Chris Kyle Dead: Author Of 'American Sniper' Shot And Killed At Gun Range. Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL who wrote the best-selling book American Sniper about his service in Iraq, was shot and killed at a gun range in Texas, multiple outlets reported Saturday night. A second man was also killed.
Portuguese /ËpÉËtjÊËÉ¡iËz/. n. the official language of Portugal, its overseas territories, and Brazil: the native language of approximately 110 million people. It belongs to the Romance group of the Indo-European family and is derived from the Galician dialect of Vulgar Latin.
As it is a Romance language, many Portuguese words have their roots in the Latin. The Romans brought this language to the Iberian Peninsula in 216BC, where it branched out over the centuries into many different languages, one of them being Old Portuguese.