Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
tchau
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Português
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
portugais
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Macedonian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic