1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Madagascar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Portugal
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Not Available
1.10 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
Not Available
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
3.3 How Are You?
Como você está?
Manao ahoana!
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Eastern Malagasy
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Western Malagasy
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,200,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Not Available
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 millionNA
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million18.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Português
Fiteny Malagasy
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Português
Malagasy Sign Language
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Malagassi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Malagasy people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
standard Malagasy
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Verb-Object-Subject
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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