Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Portuguese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
günaydın
  
Please
Por Favor
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
tchau
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
75.00 million
  
23
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Português
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
portugais
  
turc
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Turkish
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic