1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Burkina Faso
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Portugal
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Not Available
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Dagbani 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
Not Available
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?
Laafi beme ?
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
tchau
Wend na kon-d nindaare
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Ouapadoupou
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
Saremde
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
Taolende
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Burkina Faso
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 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million7.60 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
Portugiesisch
Mossi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Mossi
6 History
6.1 Origin
3rd Century
Not available
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Gur (Voltaic)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
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
No data Available
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
Not Available