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
  
National Language
Portugal
  
France
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
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
  
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.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Por Favor
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
désolé
  
Bye
tchau
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
163.00 million
  
11
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
Português
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Français
  
French Name
portugais
  
français
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Not Available
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic