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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

10
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Portugal

1.4 Second Language

United States of America

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

1.6 Minority Language

Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
  • The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.

1.9 Similar To

Spanish and Galician Languages

1.10 Derived From

Latin

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

23
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

19
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Olá

3.2 Thank You

obrigado

3.3 How Are You?

Como você está?

3.4 Good Night

boa noite

3.5 Good Evening

boa Noite

3.6 Good Afternoon

boa Tarde

3.7 Good Morning

bom Dia

3.8 Please

Por Favor

3.9 Sorry

pesaroso

3.10 Bye

tchau

3.11 I Love You

Eu te amo

3.12 Excuse Me

desculpe me

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Brazilian Portuguese

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Brazil

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

204,000,000.00
Rank: 4 (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

European Portuguese

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Portugal

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00
Rank: 9 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Daman and Diu

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

4,000.00
Rank: 36 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

26
Rank: 22 (Overall)
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0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

231.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

3.27 %
Rank: 7 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

216.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

15.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Português

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Português

5.3.4 French Name

portugais

5.3.5 German Name

Portugiesisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

5.5 Ethnicity

Portuguese people or portugueses

6 History

6.1 Origin

3rd Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Romance

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Medieval Galician

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Portuguese

6.3.3 Language Position

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Portuguese

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

pt

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

por

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

por

7.3 ISO 639 3

por

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

port1283

7.6 Linguasphere

51-AAA-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Portuguese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Portuguese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Portuguese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Portuguese. Portuguese phonology gives Portuguese vowels and Portuguese consonants. There are 9 vowels and 19 consonants in Portuguese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Portuguese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Portuguese language is given in detail in this section.

All Portuguese countries

Want to explore all Portuguese countries? About Portuguese language serves you with all Portuguese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Portuguese as official language are called as Portuguese countries.

  • Countries that use Portuguese as their National Language are: Portugal.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Portuguese as second language are: United States of America.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Portuguese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Portuguese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Portuguese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Portuguese language.Learn Portuguese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Olá
  • Thank you: obrigado
  • Good Morning: bom Dia
  • Good Evening: boa Noite
  • Good Afternoon: boa Tarde

All Portuguese Language Codes

Get to know all Portuguese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Portuguese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.