Countries
Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
109
0
46
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National Language
Portugal
Austria
Second Language
United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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 croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Latin
Church Slavonic
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2330
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1925
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Olá
bok
Thank You
obrigado
hvala
How Are You?
Como você está?
kako si
Good Night
boa noite
laku noć
Good Evening
boa Noite
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
dobar dan
Good Morning
bom Dia
dobro jutro
Please
Por Favor
molim
Sorry
pesaroso
Oprostite
Bye
tchau
Doviđenja
I Love You
Eu te amo
Volim te
Excuse Me
desculpe me
Ispričavam se
Dialects
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Brazil
Croatia
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Portugal
Croatia
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
4,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2679
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million89.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.27 %89.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
216.00 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Português
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Português
Hrvatski
French Name
portugais
croate
German Name
Portugiesisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Croats
History
Origin
3rd Century
9th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
No early forms
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
623
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
pt
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
por
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
por
hrv
ISO 639 3
por
hrv
ISO 639 6
por
hrv
Glottocode
port1283
croa1245
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic