Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
102
0
46
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National Language
Portugal
Nepal
Second Language
United States of America
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Hindi
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2348
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
912
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Olá
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
obrigado
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Como você está?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
boa noite
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
boa Noite
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
Good afternoon
Good Morning
bom Dia
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Por Favor
कृपया
Sorry
pesaroso
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
tchau
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Eu te amo
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
desculpe me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Doteli
Where They Speak
Brazil
Nepal
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Portugal
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Nepal
How Many People Speak
4,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2612
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.27 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
216.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Português
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Português
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
portugais
népalais
German Name
Portugiesisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
3rd Century
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Nepali
Language Position
659
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
pt
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
por
nep
ISO 639 2/B
por
nep
ISO 639 3
por
npi
ISO 639 6
por
nep
Glottocode
port1283
nepa1254
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative