Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Portugal
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Olá
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
obrigado
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Como você está?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
boa noite
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
boa Noite
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
bom Dia
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Por Favor
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
pesaroso
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
tchau
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Eu te amo
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
desculpe me
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Brazil
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00
  
4
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Portugal
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
  
7
39.00 million
  
32
Native Speakers
216.00 million
  
5
39.00 million
  
25
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Português
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Português
  
Not Available
  
French Name
portugais
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Portugiesisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
3rd Century
  
1561
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Portuguese
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pt
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
por
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
por
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
por
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
port1283
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic