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Portuguese

Portuguese

Summary

Portuguese is natively spoken by about 228 million people, primarily in Portugal and Brazil, with significant communities in Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, and other former Portuguese colonies. It is integral to Portuguese cultural identity, known for its literature, music (such as fado), and global influence through exploration and colonization. Written in the Latin alphabet, Portuguese grammar features a subject-verb-object (SVO) word order, gendered nouns, and a system of verb conjugations that indicate tense, mood, and aspect.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 0

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 2

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 3

  • Word Order: SVO

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 13

  • Number of Consonants: 23

Areas Where Spoken

  • Angola (official) (36.6%) (13.0 mil) 

  • Andorra (10.8%) (9 k) 

  • Brazil (official) (93.2%) (201 mil) 

  • Cape Verde (official) (10.0%) (59 k) 

  • East Timor (official) (0.2%) (3 k)

  • Guinea-Bissau (official) (8.1%) (171 k) 

  • Luxembourg (13.0%) (85 k) 

  • Mozambique (official) (10.7%) (3.53 mil) 

  • Portugal (official) (99.0%) (10.3 mil) 

  • São Tomé and Príncipe (official) (34.6%) (79 k) 

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