Allan Patrick Medeiros Lucas wrote:
This question had been discussed over and over again on pt.wikipedia.org and every time we have concluded that the best way is to stay together. And, yes, I´m from Brazil and my first language is brazilian portuguese.
That would be my hope, so I'm glad to hear that. But in every case, this should be for the native speakers of variants of languages to decide, and it *should* be decided from a perspective of love and harmony and rationality (mutual intelligibility being key) as opposed to for nationalistic reasons. It *can* *still* be the case that somewhat close languages should split if the overall impact is positive.
--Jimbo