Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
France, Germany, Indonesia
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
  
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.
  
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
German and English Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
Hallo
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
dankjewel
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
hoe gaat het met je?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
goede Nacht
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
goedenavond
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
goedemiddag
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
goedemorgen
  
Please
Por Favor
  
alsjeblieft
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
sorry
  
Bye
tchau
  
vaarwel
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Ik hou van jou
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
pardon
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Gronings
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Low Saxon
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
4,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Limburgian
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Belgium, Netherlands
  
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00
  
18
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
28.00 million
  
38
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
22.00 million
  
35
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
6.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Português
  
Nederlands
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Hollands, Nederlands
  
French Name
portugais
  
néerlandais; flamand
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Niederländisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Dutch people
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
AD 450-500
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Standard Dutch
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
nl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
nld
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
dut
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
nld
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
mode1257
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
52-ACB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic