Countries
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
101
0
46
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National Language
Portugal
Sri Lanka
Second Language
United States of America
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Spanish and Galician Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
Latin
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2354
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
918
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1936
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Olá
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
obrigado
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Como você está?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
boa noite
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
boa Noite
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
boa Tarde
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
bom Dia
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
Por Favor
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
pesaroso
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
tchau
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Eu te amo
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
desculpe me
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Brazilian Portuguese
Vedda
Where They Speak
Brazil
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
204,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
European Portuguese
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Portugal
-
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Daman and Diu
-
How Many People Speak
4,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
261
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
231.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.27 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
216.00 million16.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Português
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Português
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
portugais
singhalais
German Name
Portugiesisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Portuguese people or portugueses
Sinhalese people
Origin
3rd Century
3
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Romance
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Medieval Galician
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Portuguese
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
670
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Portuguese
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
pt
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
por
sin
ISO 639 2/B
por
sin
ISO 639 3
por
sin
ISO 639 6
por
sin
Glottocode
port1283
sinh1246
Linguasphere
51-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional