Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Portugal
  
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
South Africa
  
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Olá
  
Thank You
Thank you
  
obrigado
  
How Are You?
How are you?
  
Como você está?
  
Good Night
Good Night
  
boa noite
  
Good Evening
Good Evening
  
boa Noite
  
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
  
boa Tarde
  
Good Morning
Good Morning
  
bom Dia
  
Please
Please
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
Sorry
  
pesaroso
  
Bye
Bye
  
tchau
  
I Love You
I love you
  
Eu te amo
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
  
desculpe me
  
Dialect 1
American English
  
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
United States of America
  
Brazil
  
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00
  
3
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
  
European Portuguese
  
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
Portugal
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
15
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Welsh English
  
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
  
Daman and Diu
  
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million
  
1
231.00 million
  
7
Native Speakers
400.00 million
  
3
216.00 million
  
5
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million
  
1
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
English
  
Português
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Português
  
French Name
anglais
  
portugais
  
German Name
Englisch
  
Portugiesisch
  
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Origin
5th Century AD
  
3rd Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Medieval Galician
  
Standard Forms
Standard English
  
Portuguese
  
Signed Forms
Signed English
  
Signed Portuguese
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
en
  
pt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
eng
  
por
  
ISO 639 2/B
eng
  
por
  
ISO 639 3
eng
  
por
  
ISO 639 6
engs
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1293
  
port1283
  
Linguasphere
52-ABA
  
51-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Not Available