The Portuguese Language: Fast Facts

Portuguese is spoken by nearly 200 million people in the world and ranks eighth among the most spoken languages in the world (third among the western languages, after English and Castilian).

It is the official language of seven countries: Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde ,Guinea-Bissau ,Mozambique ,Portugal ,and São Tomé and Príncipe islands and is also spoken in Indonesia, India, Angola, the United States, the UK, Canada, France and Germany.

Portuguese is one of the Romance languages, evolved from Latin and developed on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula (now Portugal and the Spanish province of Galicia).

It is very similar to Spanish, and also related to Italian, French, Catalan, and Romanian.

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Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese is spoken in Brazil, developed from the influence of African and indigenous languages in South America.

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