1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
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
desculpe me
Ispričavam se
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Chakavian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Chakavian
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
Shtokavian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.0013,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million89.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million5.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million1.25 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]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Croats
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Croatian Sign Language
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
51-AAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic