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Since the 3rd century BC, the Portuguese language has evolved from Vulgar Latin brought by Roman settlers, with minor influences from other languages and a marked Celtic substrate. With the fall of the Roman Empire and the Germanic invasions, archaic Portuguese developed in the 5th century AD. and it became a language of written documents since the 9th century, giving rise to Galician-Portuguese. This language matured in the 13th century and was made official by D.Dinis I in 1290. The leap to modern Portuguese took place during the Renaissance, with the landmark Cancioneiro Geral by Garcia de Resende, in 1516. it began with the creation of grammars in 1536. With the expansion of the Age of Discovery, the Portuguese language became international. In 1990, the Orthographic Agreement of the Portuguese Language was signed, signed by representatives of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, aiming to create a unified orthography.
