1 Countries
1.1 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
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 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
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
South Africa
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
How are you?
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
American English
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
Brazil
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Portugal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Welsh English
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
United Kingdom
Daman and Diu
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.004,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
400.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Portuguese people or portugueses
6 History
6.1 Origin
5th Century AD
3rd Century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
Portuguese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
Signed Portuguese
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Not Available