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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

10
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Portugal

1.4 Second Language

United States of America

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

1.6 Minority Language

Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

1.7 Regulated By

Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

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.

1.9 Similar To

Spanish and Galician Languages

1.10 Derived From

Latin

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

23
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

9
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

19
Rank: 9 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

Olá

3.2 Thank You

obrigado

3.3 How Are You?

Como você está?

3.4 Good Night

boa noite

3.5 Good Evening

boa Noite

3.6 Good Afternoon

boa Tarde

3.7 Good Morning

bom Dia

3.8 Please

Por Favor

3.9 Sorry

pesaroso

3.10 Bye

tchau

3.11 I Love You

Eu te amo

3.12 Excuse Me

desculpe me

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Brazilian Portuguese

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Brazil

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

204,000,000.00
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

European Portuguese

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Portugal

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00
Rank: 9 (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Daman and Diu

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

4,000.00
Rank: 36 (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

26
Rank: 22 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

231.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

3.27 %
Rank: 7 (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

216.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

15.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

Português

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Português

5.3.4 French Name

portugais

5.3.5 German Name

Portugiesisch

5.4 Pronunciation

[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

5.5 Ethnicity

Portuguese people or portugueses

6 History

6.1 Origin

3rd Century

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Romance

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Medieval Galician

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Portuguese

6.3.3 Language Position

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Signed Portuguese

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

pt

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

por

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

por

7.3 ISO 639 3

por

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

port1283

7.6 Linguasphere

51-AAA-a

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Origin of Portuguese language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Portuguese language is one of the Most Spoken Languages. The origin of Portuguese language states that it was put to use in 3rd Century. The history of Portuguese language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Portuguese Language History.The evolution of Portuguese language began with early forms such as Medieval Galician. Portuguese is the standard form of Portuguese language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Portuguese Language.

Portuguese population

Portuguese population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Portuguese language. Portuguese language is spoken by 231.00 million people in the world. Most of the Portuguese population lies in the Portuguese Speaking Countries. Portuguese language is spoken as first language by 216.00 million people and as second language by about 15.00 million people. Get to know Portuguese speaking population in detail.

Portuguese writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Portuguese writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Portuguese language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Portuguese language. Learn more about . 

Information about Portuguese language

Check out all the information about Portuguese language here. You may find it interesting to learn Portuguese Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Portuguese Speaking Countries, Portuguese speaking continents and Portuguese Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Portuguese countries knowing common Portuguese Greetings will help you in communicating with Portuguese people.