1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
United States of America
Filipinos
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia, Australia
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
1.9 Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
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
3.3 How Are You?
Como você está?
Kamusta ka na?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
boa Noite
Magandang gabi po
3.6 Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
Magandang hapon po
3.7 Good Morning
bom Dia
Magandang umaga po
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
desculpe me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Batangas Tagalog
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
Bisalog
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
Filipino
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Philippines
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4,000.0090,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
231.00 million73.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
1.3 Native Speakers
216.00 million28.00 million
0.13
873
2.2.1 Second Language Speakers
15.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
2.2.2 Native Name
2.2.3 Alternative Names
Português
Filipino, Pilipino
2.2.4 French Name
2.2.5 German Name
2.3 Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
2.4 Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Tagalog people
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
3.3.2 Standard Forms
3.3.3 Language Position
3.4.2 Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Not Available
3.5 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
4.7.4 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available