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
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
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
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) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million
Rank: 7 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
3.27 %
Rank: 7 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million
Rank: 5 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
Rank: 18 (Overall) ▶
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
6.3.4 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