Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
Portugal
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Latin
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Como você está?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
boa noite
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
boa Noite
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
مساء الخير
Good Morning
bom Dia
صباح الخير
I Love You
Eu te amo
أحبك
Excuse Me
desculpe me
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Brazil
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Portugal
Sudan
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Levantine
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
Português
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Português
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
portugais
arabe
German Name
Portugiesisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Arabs
Origin
3rd Century
512 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
No early forms
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
port1283
arab1395
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Portuguese and Arabic Speaking population
Portuguese and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Portuguese and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Portuguese and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Portuguese and Arabic on Portuguese vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Portuguese and Arabic Language Codes
Portuguese and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Portuguese and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.