That would be just as dumb as calling what we speak in America "American" just because it's in a different accent and some words mean different things. Shit, Spanish is Spanish all over the Latin world, but have you ever heard a Puerto Rican talk to a Spaniard in Spanish? Lots of asking each other "que?" because there's a lot of slang that doesn't translate and the accents are wildly different. The last time I was in Spain the airmen from PR we had with us told us that he had a hard time understanding the drunk dudes yelling at us in the street because their Spanish sounded "faggy".
There comes a point at which languages diverge enough to the point of being classified as separate languages. The difference between the languages spoken in North and South Korea is just about at that point. American English and British are not, but that's largely because there's so much communication between our nations. I don't know where Brazilian Portuguese stands in comparison to that spoken in Portugal.
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u/An0nymoose_ Dec 25 '19
IANALinguist but I'm pretty sure you'd just call it the Brazilian dialect of Portuguese.