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Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
10 6

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
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Alphabets
23 5

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
19 9

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

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 5

Dialect 2
European Portuguese

Where They Speak
Portugal

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00 37

Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

Where They Speak
Daman and Diu

How Many People Speak
4,000.00 77

Total No. Of Dialects
26 22

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
231.00 million 7

Speaking Population
3.27 % 7

Native Speakers
216.00 million 5

Second Language Speakers
15.00 million 34

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
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Medieval Galician

Standard Forms
Portuguese

Language Position
6 6

Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
pt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
por

ISO 639 2/B
por

ISO 639 3
por

ISO 639 6
por

Glottocode
port1283

Linguasphere
51-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology
-

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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.

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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.

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