Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures Eça de Queirós and Father António Vieira, among other great Lusophone authors, through the publishing of previously unavailable sources and reference works, including complete works of the great figures from the History of Portuguese culture. The interchange of knowledge between Lusophone and European cultures has also been expanded, giving rise to interartistic studies (coordinated by Annabela Rita), to the imaginary of cultural studies (coordinated by José Eduardo Franco), to the studies on interculturality of the iberian world and the Slavonic world (coordinated by Béata Cieszynska), to the studies on the didactics of literature, the work in oral and traditional literatures,
Portuguese language third-most spoken European language in the world in terms of native speakers, and the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere. It is also the most spoken language in South America and the second-most spoken in Latin America after Spanish, one of the 10 most spoken languages in Africa and is an official language of the European Union, Mercosur, OAS, ECOWAS and the African Union. When the Romans arrived at the Iberian Peninsula in 216 B.C., they brought the Latin language with them, from which all Romance languages descend. The language was spread by Roman soldiers, settlers, and merchants, who