Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Russia
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
tchau
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Português
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Russki
  
French Name
portugais
  
russe
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Russians
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic