1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.13 National Language
Portugal
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.14 Second Language
United States of America
Roman Empire
1.15 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
1.16 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.17 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
1.18 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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.19 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Armenian
1.20 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
obrigado
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
Como você está?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
boa noite
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
boa Noite
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
bom Dia
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
Por Favor
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
pesaroso
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
desculpe me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Cappadocian Greek
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Griko
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0050,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Mariupol
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Português
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
portugais
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Neugriechisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[eliniˈka]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Greeks or Hellenes
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
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Greek Sign Language
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