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Countries

Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Portugal

Second Language

United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

Regulated By

Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

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.

Similar To

Spanish and Galician Languages

Derived From

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 5 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 9 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks

Rank: 6 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Olá

Thank You

obrigado

How Are You?

Como você está?

Good Night

boa noite

Good Evening

boa Noite

Good Afternoon

boa Tarde

Good Morning

bom Dia

Please

Por Favor

Sorry

pesaroso

Bye

tchau

I Love You

Eu te amo

Excuse Me

desculpe me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Brazilian Portuguese

Where They Speak

Brazil

How Many People Speak

204,000,000.00

Rank: 4 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

European Portuguese

Where They Speak

Portugal

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.00

Rank: 9 (Overall)

700 80000000

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Dialect 3

Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

Where They Speak

Daman and Diu

How Many People Speak

4,000.00

Rank: 36 (Overall)

1400 96000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 22 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

231.00 million

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0.13 1200

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Speaking Population

3.27 %

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0.11 89

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Native Speakers

216.00 million

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0.13 873

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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million

Rank: 18 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Português

Alternative Names

Português

French Name

portugais

German Name

Portugiesisch

Pronunciation

[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

Ethnicity

Portuguese people or portugueses

History

Origin

3rd Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Romance

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

Medieval Galician

Standard Forms

Portuguese

Language Position

Rank: 6 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Portuguese

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

por

ISO 639 2/B

por

ISO 639 3

por

ISO 639 6

Not Available

Glottocode

port1283

Linguasphere

51-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Portuguese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Portuguese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Portuguese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Portuguese. Portuguese phonology gives Portuguese vowels and Portuguese consonants. There are 9 vowels and 19 consonants in Portuguese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Portuguese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Portuguese language is given in detail in this section.

All Portuguese countries

Want to explore all Portuguese countries? About Portuguese language serves you with all Portuguese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Portuguese as official language are called as Portuguese countries.

Countries that use Portuguese as their National Language are: Portugal.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Portuguese as second language are: United States of America.

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Learn Portuguese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Portuguese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Portuguese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Portuguese language.Learn Portuguese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: Olá
Thank you: obrigado
Good Morning: bom Dia
Good Evening: boa Noite
Good Afternoon: boa Tarde

All Portuguese Language Codes

Get to know all Portuguese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Portuguese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.