Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Ethiopia
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Somalia
  
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.
  
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Somali Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oromo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Olá
  
akkam
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
Galatoomi
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Attam jirta/jirtu?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Nagayattii buli
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Akkam waarite
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Attam oolte / ooltan
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Attam bulte/bultan
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Maaloo
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
naa dhiisi
  
Bye
tchau
  
Nagayattii!
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Sin jaaladha
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Maaloo na dabarsi
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Borana
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Ethiopia, Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
4,000,000.00
  
19
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Orma
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Wata
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Kenya
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
25.00 million
  
40
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Português
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Afaan Oromoo
  
French Name
portugais
  
galla
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Galla-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Oromos
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
16
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Afaan Oromo
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
om
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
orm
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
orm
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
orm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
nucl1736
  
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 Oromo Speaking population
Portuguese and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Portuguese and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Portuguese and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. 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 Oromo on Portuguese vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Portuguese and Oromo Language Codes
Portuguese and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Portuguese and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.