Abstract
This paper provides a short survey of the 1990 Portuguese orthographic reform, mandatory from 2015 (in Portugal) and 2016 (in Brazil), whose aim was to unify in a single normative document two previously used orthographies, one valid in Brazil and the other in Portugal and other Lusophone countries. The new Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement only partly unifies the previous two orthographic agreements as this new official orthography still allows variation in a number of cases which reflect some of the differences in the pronun- ciation of certain sounds. Besides the main orthographic innovations, the paper looks into some of the most prominent judgments on the orthographic reform appearing in the media and in professional texts during the still-ongoing public debate.
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