1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Sri Lanka
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Maldivian 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
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
obrigado
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Como você está?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
boa noite
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
boa Noite
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
bom Dia
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Por Favor
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
pesaroso
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Eu te amo
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
desculpe me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Vedda
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
Not Available
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
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Not Available
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Português
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Portugiesisch
Singhalesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Sinhalese 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
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Portuguese
Modern Sinhalese
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology