Gender neutrality in Portuguese

Gender-neutral language in Portuguese is a recent strand of demands for greater gender equality and social inclusion between men, women and non-binary individuals.

The creation of gender-neutral terms and removal of gender markers aims to make non-binary people feel included.

[11][12][13] These forms are not pronounceable, they are meant to be graphical, being criticized for not being readable by screen readers and seen as potentially ableist.

[21] See the below table with suggestions for various inflections of some neopronouns:[22] Neolanguage (Portuguese: neolinguagem) stands for neologistic desinences, articles, nouns and declensions along with pronouns.

[29][30] A form of neolanguage can be expressed with the words amigues (friends), psicólogue (psychologist), and linde (pretty) for example, using ⟨-e⟩ suffix.

Use of gender-neutral words at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro