1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
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
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
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
Not Available
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?
Apa khabar?
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
boa Tarde
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Eu te amo
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Bengkulu
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Brazil
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Pekal
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Musi
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.004,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million216.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
98.00 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
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Portuguese people or portugueses
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian 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
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Portuguese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available