1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Ethiopia, Kenya
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
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Somali 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?
Attam jirta/jirtu?
3.4 Good Night
boa noite
Nagayattii buli
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
Attam oolte / ooltan
3.7 Good Morning
bom Dia
Attam bulte/bultan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
desculpe me
Maaloo na dabarsi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Borana
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
204,000,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0066,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Wata
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.0013,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million24.00 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
Portugiesisch
Galla-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Oromos
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic 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
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
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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
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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