Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Norway
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Norway
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Europe, South America
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Nynorsk
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Norwegian Language Council
  
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.
  
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Swedish and Danish Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Norwegian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
hallo
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
takk
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
hvordan har du det?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
god natt
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
god kveld
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
god ettermiddag
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
god morgen
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Vær så snill
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
unnskyld
  
Bye
tchau
  
ha det
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Jeg Elsker Deg
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
unnskyld meg
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Jamtlandic
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Jamtland,Harjedalen
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Sognamål
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Sogn
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Hallingmål-Valdris
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Hallingdal, Valdres
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
5.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
5.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Português
  
Norsk
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Norsk
  
French Name
portugais
  
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Nynorsk
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Norwegians
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
c. 1300 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Northern (Scandinavian)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Nynorsk, Bokmål
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Signed Norwegian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
no
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
nor
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
nor
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
nor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
norw1258
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Portuguese and Norwegian Speaking population
Portuguese and Norwegian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Portuguese and Norwegian languages can be compared. The total count of Portuguese and Norwegian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Norwegian language is Not Available. 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 Norwegian on Portuguese vs Norwegian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Portuguese and Norwegian Language Codes
Portuguese and Norwegian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Portuguese and Norwegian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.