1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Portugal
Moldova, Romania
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Kazakhstan, Russia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
ce mai faci?
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
Aromanian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Brazil
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Megleno-Romanian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Portugal
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.005,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Istro-Romanian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.001,400.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million24.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Português
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
5.3.4 French Name
portugais
roumain; moldave
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[roˈmɨnə]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Romanians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Proto-Romanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Romanian Sign Language
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology