1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Africa, Canada
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
1.8 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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Italian Language
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?
Como você está?
Comment allez-vous?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
Por Favor
S'il vous plaît
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Quebec French
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Brazil
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.006,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
African French
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Swiss French
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Northeast France, Switzerland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million76.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million87.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Französisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
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
Medieval Galician
Old French, Middle French and French
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Standard French
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
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
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic