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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

102
0 46
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National Language

Portugal
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Second Language

United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Africa

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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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.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Spanish and Galician Languages
Zulu language

Derived From

Latin
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2331
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

95
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1918
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Olá
Moni

Thank You

obrigado
Zikomo

How Are You?

Como você está?
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

boa noite
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

boa Noite
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

boa Tarde
Masana abwino

Good Morning

bom Dia
M'mawa wabwino

Please

Por Favor
Chonde

Sorry

pesaroso
pepani

Bye

tchau
anatsanzikana

I Love You

Eu te amo
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

desculpe me
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Brazilian Portuguese
Kasungu

Where They Speak

Brazil
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

204,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

European Portuguese
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Portugal
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

10,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

Daman and Diu
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

4,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

265
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

231.00 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

3.27 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

216.00 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Português
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Português
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

portugais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Portugiesisch
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Portuguese people or portugueses
Chewa people

History

Origin

3rd Century
15th Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Romance
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Medieval Galician
No early forms

Standard Forms

Portuguese
Chewa

Language Position

627
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Portuguese
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

pt
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

por
nya

ISO 639 2/B

por
nya

ISO 639 3

por
nya

ISO 639 6

por
nya

Glottocode

port1283
nyan1308

Linguasphere

51-AAA-a
99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

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Portuguese and Chewa Alphabets

Portuguese and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Portuguese and Chewa. In Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Portuguese and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Portuguese and Chewa languages. The Portuguese phonology consist Portuguese vowels and Portuguese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Portuguese greetings vs Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Portuguese and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Portuguese and Chewa Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Portuguese and Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Portuguese and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Portuguese are spoken in different Portuguese Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Portuguese vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Portuguese dialects include: Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Portuguese and Chewa Speaking population

Portuguese and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Portuguese and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Portuguese and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Portuguese and Chewa on Portuguese vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Portuguese and Chewa Language Codes

Portuguese and Chewa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Portuguese and Chewa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.