1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Pan South African Language Board
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.
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Xhosa Language
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
Not Available
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?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
boa Noite
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Qwabe
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Brazil
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Portugal
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Ndebele
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Zulu-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
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
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available