Linguistic Gap Analysis

Portuguese has settled vocabulary for nearly every Romans concept. The gaps here are not missing words but words whose existing everyday meaning has been actively reassigned by a rival, organized religious movement.

Terms requiring explicit doctrinal disambiguation rather than new vocabulary

• Encarnação (incarnation): the identical word is Kardecism’s standard term for a spirit’s routine reincarnation; this curriculum cannot simply use the word, it must actively teach the contrast every time the doctrine of Christ’s incarnation appears.
• Salvação (salvation): must be taught against the backdrop of “evolução espiritual,” since simply using the word “salvação” does not, on its own, exclude the gradual multi-lifetime reading a Kardecist-influenced reader would likely default to.
• Imputed righteousness (justiça imputada): as in other Catholic-heritage Romance languages, must be distinguished from “justiça infundida” (Tridentine), and additionally from a merit-earned-across-lifetimes reading unique to this Language Package’s Brazilian context.

Terms where Portuguese’s existing vocabulary is an asset, not a gap

• Deus, Jesus, Espírito Santo: long-established, unambiguous proper names shared across all Portuguese Christian traditions; the risk with these terms is entirely in surrounding doctrinal content, not the words themselves.
• Messias, Cristo: transliterated/established terms with a settled, orthodox meaning, though the surrounding doctrine (see Comparative Theology) needs active contrast with Kardecist Christology.

Gap-filling strategy

Where a term’s everyday Portuguese meaning has been reassigned by Kardecism or Afro-Brazilian tradition, this Language Package pairs the established biblical rendering with a mandatory contrastive teaching note rather than inventing a new, unfamiliar word — replacing “encarnação” with an invented alternative would create a bigger comprehension problem than the disambiguation risk it solves.