Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
tchau
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Português
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
portugais
  
népalais
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Nepali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative