1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Portugal
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Romanian
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?
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
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Gheg Albanian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Brazil
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.003,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Tosk Albanian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Portugal
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Arbëresh
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.00100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million7.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million3.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million3.60 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Português
shqip / gjuha shqipe
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[ʃcip]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Albanians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Old Albanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Standard Albanian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
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