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Countries

Countries

Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Total No. Of Countries

4610
0 46
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National Language

Spain
Portugal

Second Language

Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America

Regulated By

Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras

Interesting Facts

  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  • 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.

Similar To

French Language
Spanish and Galician Languages

Derived From

Latin
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2723
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2219
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hola
Olá

Thank You

Gracias
obrigado

How Are You?

Cómo estás?
Como você está?

Good Night

Buenas Noches
boa noite

Good Evening

Bonne soirée
boa Noite

Good Afternoon

Buenas Tardes
boa Tarde

Good Morning

Buenos Días
bom Dia

Please

Por Favor
Por Favor

Sorry

triste
pesaroso

Bye

adiós
tchau

I Love You

Te Quiero
Eu te amo

Excuse Me

Discúlpeme
desculpe me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Mexican Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese

Where They Speak

Mexico
Brazil

How Many People Speak

105,000,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Cuban Spanish
European Portuguese

Where They Speak

Cuba
Portugal

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Puerto Rican Spanish
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole

Where They Speak

Puerto Rico
Daman and Diu

How Many People Speak

3,900,000.004,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2126
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

489.00 million231.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

6.15 %3.27 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

410.00 million216.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

89.50 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Español
Português

Alternative Names

Castellano, Castilian, Español
Português

French Name

espagnol; castillan
portugais

German Name

Spanisch
Portugiesisch

Pronunciation

[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]

Ethnicity

Spanish people
Portuguese people or portugueses

History

Origin

210 BC
3rd Century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Romance
Romance

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Spanish and Spanish
Medieval Galician

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Portuguese

Language Position

26
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Spanish
Signed Portuguese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

es
pt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

spa
por

ISO 639 2/B

spa
por

ISO 639 3

spa
por

ISO 639 6

spa
por

Glottocode

stan1288
port1283

Linguasphere

51-AAA-b
51-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Spanish and Portuguese Alphabets

Spanish and Portuguese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Spanish and Portuguese. In Spanish Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Portuguese Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Spanish and Portuguese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Spanish and Portuguese languages. The Spanish phonology consist Spanish vowels and Spanish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Spanish greetings vs Portuguese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Spanish and Portuguese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Spanish and Portuguese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Spanish and Portuguese dialects. Various dialects of Spanish and Portuguese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Spanish are spoken in different Spanish Speaking Countries whereas Portuguese Dialects are spoken in different Portuguese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Spanish vs Portuguese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Spanish dialects include: Mexican Spanish, Cuban Spanish. Portuguese dialects include: Brazilian Portuguese , European Portuguese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Spanish and Portuguese Speaking population

Spanish and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Spanish and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Spanish and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Spanish language is 6.15 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Spanish and Portuguese on Spanish vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Spanish and Portuguese Language Codes

Spanish and Portuguese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Spanish and Portuguese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.