Portuguese Language (por)

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Also Known As: Portuguese language,Portuguese,Português


Description:

Portuguese ( português (help·info) or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin spoken by the romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the Celtici and the Conii) around 2000 years ago. It spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th centuries as Portugal established a colonial and commercial empire (1415–1999) which spanned from Brazil in the Americas to Goa and other parts of India, Macau in China and Timor (north of Australia). It was used as the exclusive lingua franca on the island of Sri Lanka for almost 350 years. During that time, many creole languages based on Portuguese also appeared around the world, especially in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean.

Today it is one of the world's major languages, ranked 6th according to number of native speakers (between 191 and 230 million). It is the language of about half of South America, even though Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas. It is also a major lingua franca in Portugal's former colonial possessions in Africa. It is an official language in nine countries (see the table..... full article at Wikipedia

Location of Portuguese Language Speakers

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Rosetta Document Collection

Genesis Translation:
1(download)(browse)
Orthography:
1(download)(browse)
2(download)(browse)
Phonology:
1(download)(browse)

Overview

Main Country: Portugal
Spoken In:

Countries: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Andorra Regions: Europe

ISO 639-1 Code: pt
ISO 639-2 Code: por
ISO 639-3 Code: por

Classification Taxonomy

All Languages

  Indo-European Group

    Italic Group

      Romance Group

        Italo-Western Group

          Western Italo-Western Group

            Gallo-Iberian Group

              Ibero-Romance Group

                West Iberian Group

                  Portuguese-Galician Group

                    Portuguese Language