1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.11 National Language
China, Guangdong
Portugal
1.13 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
1.15 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.17 Minority Language
Hawaii
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.18 Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
2.3 Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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.
2.4 Similar To
Chinese Language
Spanish and Galician Languages
2.5 Derived From
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.6.2 How Many Consonants
3.10 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
3.11 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.12 Hard to Learn
3.12.1 Language Levels
3.12.3 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Brazilian Portuguese
7.1.1 Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Brazil
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
Xiguan
European Portuguese
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.5 Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
7.5.1 Where They Speak
7.5.2 How Many People Speak
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
60.00 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
9.3 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
52.00 million216.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.2 Second Language Speakers
10.3.4 Native Name
10.3.5 Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Português
10.3.6 French Name
10.3.7 German Name
Not Available
Portugiesisch
10.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
10.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Portuguese people or portugueses
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
11.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Medieval Galician
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Portuguese
11.3.3 Language Position
12.7.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Portuguese
12.8 Scope
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-a
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available