Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
tchau
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
7.80 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Português
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
portugais
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Not Available
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available