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
Namibia, South Africa
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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Dutch 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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
Como você está?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Baster Afrikaans
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 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.30 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
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
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology