Countries
Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
103
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Portugal
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
United States of America
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Armenian
Derived From
Latin
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2324
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
97
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1917
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin
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
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Olá
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
obrigado
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
Como você está?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
boa noite
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
boa Noite
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
bom Dia
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
Por Favor
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
pesaroso
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
tchau
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
Eu te amo
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
desculpe me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
Brazil
Greece
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Griko
Where They Speak
Portugal
Italy
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Mariupol
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
4,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2625
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.27 %0.18 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
216.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Português
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Português
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
portugais
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Portugiesisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Greeks or Hellenes
History
Origin
3rd Century
1500 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Modern Greek
Language Position
674
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
pt
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
por
ell
ISO 639 2/B
por
gre
ISO 639 3
por
ell
ISO 639 6
por
ells
Glottocode
port1283
gree1276
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic