1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Portugal
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
France, Germany, Indonesia
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
German and English Languages
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 gaat het met je?
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
Gronings
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Low Saxon
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Portugal
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Limburgian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Belgium, Netherlands
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.001,300,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million22.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Português
Hollands, Nederlands
5.3.4 French Name
portugais
néerlandais; flamand
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Niederländisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Dutch people
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
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Standard Dutch
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology