Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Portugal
  
India, Nepal
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Nepal
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Bhojpuri Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maithili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Consonants
Not Available
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Olá
  
pranam
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
dhanyabad
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Aahan kehan chhi ?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Śubharātri
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
shubh sandhya
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
dopahar ke bad namaskar
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Suprabhaat
  
Please
Por Favor
  
kripaya
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
maf karai
  
Bye
tchau
  
Alavidā
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
kripaya
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Tharuwat
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Madhubani
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
North India
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Khortha
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Deoghar, France
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
32.00 million
  
35
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
27.00 million
  
30
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
2.80 million
  
33
Native Name
Português
  
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
  
French Name
portugais
  
maithili
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Maithili
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Maithil
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
14th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Standard Maithili
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
mai
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
mai
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
mai
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
mait1250
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Portuguese and Maithili Speaking population
Portuguese and Maithili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Portuguese and Maithili languages can be compared. The total count of Portuguese and Maithili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maithili language is 0.41 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Portuguese and Maithili on Portuguese vs Maithili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Portuguese and Maithili Language Codes
Portuguese and Maithili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Portuguese and Maithili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.