1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Japan
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
Asia, Pacific
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Korean 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, Top-To-Bottom
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?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
boa noite
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
boa Noite
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
Por Favor
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
pesaroso
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
desculpe me
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Sanuki
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Hakata
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
Kansai
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 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million128.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Japonic 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 Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Signed Japanese
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
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic