Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Germany
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-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
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Por Favor
  
bitte
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
tchau
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Português
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
portugais
  
allemand
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Germans
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic