Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
  
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
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.
  
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Молим (Molim)
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
Bye
tchau
  
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Волим те (Volim te)
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Извините (Izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Prizren-Timok
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Southeastern Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
8.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
8.70 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Português
  
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Montenegrin
  
French Name
portugais
  
serbe
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Serbisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Serbs
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
11th Century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Standard Serbian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
sr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
srp
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
srp
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
srp
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
serb1264
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available