Portuguese language

E3583

Indo-European language Romance language

Portuguese is a Romance language spoken primarily in Portugal and Brazil, serving as the official language of several countries and widely used across Europe, South America, Africa, and parts of Asia.

Aliases (7)

Portuguese ×110
European Portuguese ×4
Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil ×1
Old Portuguese ×1
Portuguese (historical) ×1
Portuguese of São Tomé and Príncipe ×1
Portuguese-speaking world ×1

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-European language → Romance language →
closelyRelatedTo	Galician language → Spanish language →
coOfficialLanguageOf	Angola → Cape Verde → East Timor → Equatorial Guinea → Guinea-Bissau → Macau → Mozambique → São Tomé and Príncipe →
derivedFrom	Vulgar Latin →
developedInCentury	12th century →
hasDialect	African Portuguese → Asian Portuguese →
hasEarlyForm	Galician-Portuguese → Old Portuguese →
hasFeature	grammatical gender → nasal vowels → verb conjugation by person and number →
hasNativeName	português →
hasStandardForm	Brazilian Portuguese → European Portuguese →
hasWritingStandard	Orthographic Agreement of 1990 →
ISO639-1Code	pt →
ISO639-2Code	por →
ISO639-3Code	por →
languageFamily	Indo-European languages → Romance languages →
memberOf	Community of Portuguese Language Countries →
officialLanguageOf	Angola → Brazil → Cape Verde → East Timor → Equatorial Guinea → Guinea-Bissau → Macau → Mozambique → Portugal → São Tomé and Príncipe →
primaryWordOrder	SVO →
regulatedBy	Academia Brasileira de Letras → Academia das Ciências de Lisboa →
spokenIn	Angola → Brazil → Cape Verde → East Timor → Equatorial Guinea → Galicia → Goa → Guinea-Bissau → Macau → Mozambique → Portugal → São Tomé and Príncipe →
subfamily	Ibero-Romance languages → Western Romance languages →
usedAs	language of administration → language of education → language of media → official language →
writingSystem	Latin alphabet →

Referenced by (148)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Angola ("Portuguese") → Brava ("Portuguese") → Coimbra ("Portuguese") → Dili, Timor-Leste ("Portuguese") → Guinea-Bissau ("Portuguese") → Macau ("Portuguese") → Maio ("Portuguese") → Malabo ("Portuguese") → Pan-African Parliament ("Portuguese") → Paraíba ("Portuguese") → Porto ("Portuguese") → Portugal ("Portuguese") → Portuguese America ("Portuguese") → Río Muni ("Portuguese") → Silves ("Portuguese") → São Tomé and Príncipe ("Portuguese") → Timor-Leste ("Portuguese") →	officialLanguage
Alan ("Portuguese") → Andreas ("Portuguese") → Christian ("Portuguese") → Ferdinand ("Portuguese") → Gabi ("Portuguese") → Gabriel ("Portuguese") → Joel ("Portuguese") → Julia ("Portuguese") → Linda ("Portuguese") → Luisa ("Portuguese") → Magdalena ("Portuguese") → Sara ("Portuguese") → Silvio ("Portuguese") →	usedInLanguage
African Union ("Portuguese") → Dili ("Portuguese") → European Union ("Portuguese") → Madeira ("Portuguese") → Oceania ("Portuguese") → Oecusse ("Portuguese") → Ponta Delgada ("Portuguese") → Rio Grande do Norte ("Portuguese") → Sabrosa ("Portuguese") →	hasOfficialLanguage
Alexis → Elizabeth ("Portuguese") → Isidore → Joachim → Pablo ("Portuguese") → Patrice ("Portuguese") → Richard ("Portuguese") → Sylvia →	hasLanguageOfUse
Afrikaans ("Portuguese") → Annobón → Canarian Spanish ("Portuguese") → Haketia ("Portuguese") → Mirandese language → Sranan → Tetum ("Portuguese") →	influencedBy
Antillean Creole ("Portuguese") → Brazilian Portuguese ("European Portuguese") → Cameroonian Pidgin English ("Portuguese (historical)") → Equatoguinean Pidgin English ("Portuguese") → Krio language → Rioplatense Spanish →	hasInfluenceFrom
Cantonese ("Portuguese") → Guaraní ("Portuguese") → Indonesian ("Portuguese") → Japanese ("Portuguese") → Malvani ("Portuguese") → Sinhala ("Portuguese") →	hasLoanwordsFrom
Abigail ("Portuguese") → Francisca ("Portuguese") → Iago ("Portuguese") → Irene ("Portuguese") → John ("Portuguese") → Tiagu ("Portuguese") →	languageOfUse
Catalan ("Portuguese") → Galician language → Italian language → Romanian language →	closelyRelatedTo
Atauro ("Portuguese") → Lapa ("Portuguese") → Mestizo → Nikkei →	hasLanguage
Faro ("Portuguese") → House of Ivrea ("Old Portuguese") → Portuguese Empire ("Portuguese") → Sines ("Portuguese") →	language
Haketia ("Portuguese") → Shona ("Portuguese") → Sranan Tongo →	hasLexicalInfluenceFrom
André ("Portuguese") → Denis ("Portuguese") → Michael ("Portuguese") →	isUsedInLanguage
Angolan kwanza ("Portuguese") → Cape Verdean escudo ("Portuguese") → Mozambican metical ("Portuguese") →	languageOfName
Caetano ("Portuguese") → Tavares ("Portuguese") → Tiago ("Portuguese") →	languageOfOrigin
Guinean Pidgin English → Pichi language →	coexistsWith
Lingala ("Portuguese") → Swahili language →	lexicalInfluenceFrom
Diana → Naomi →	usedIn
Orthographic Agreement of 1990 ("European Portuguese") →	affectsVariant
Claudio (Portuguese) ("Portuguese-speaking world") →	associatedWithCulture
Google Translate ("Portuguese") →	availableLanguage
African Portuguese ("European Portuguese") →	basedOnDialect
Mozambique ("Portuguese") →	colonialLanguageHeritage
Tetum ("Portuguese") →	coOfficialLanguageWith
Cape Verdean Creole →	developedFrom
Carioca River ("Portuguese") →	etymologyLanguage
Forro ("Portuguese of São Tomé and Príncipe") →	hasContactLanguage
Guinea-Bissau Creole ("Portuguese") →	hasInfluencedByLanguage
Mauritian Creole ("Portuguese") →	hasInfluenceFromLanguage
Pan-Americanism ("Portuguese") →	hasLanguageContext
Llanito ("Portuguese") →	hasLanguageInfluence
Francisco ("Portuguese") →	hasLanguageOfOrigin
REFER ("Portuguese") →	hasLanguageOfWorkOrName
Roberta ("Portuguese") →	hasLanguageUsage
Nigerian Pidgin ("Portuguese") →	hasLexicalBorrowingFrom
Kimbundu ("Portuguese") →	hasLexicalBorrowingsFrom
Guinea-Bissau Creole ("Portuguese") →	hasLexifierLanguage
West Africa →	hasLinguaFranca
Malayo-Polynesian languages ("Portuguese") →	hasMajorContactLanguage
Papiamento ("Portuguese") →	hasMajorInfluenceFrom
Konkani ("Portuguese") →	hasSignificantLoanwordsFrom
Haitian Creole ("Portuguese") →	hasSubstrateInfluenceFrom
Vincent →	hasUsage
Panaji ("Portuguese") →	heritageInfluence
Galician language →	historicallyFormedWith
Romance languages →	includeLanguage
Indo-European language family →	includesLanguage
Jamaican Patois ("Portuguese") →	influencedByLanguage
Roxana →	isUsedIn
Bixby ("Portuguese") →	languageSupport
Cabinda ("Portuguese") →	languageUsed
Tetum ("Portuguese") →	lexicalBorrowingFrom
Kiunguja ("Portuguese") →	lexifierInfluence
Sub-Saharan Africa ("Portuguese") →	majorColonialLanguage
Malay ("Portuguese") →	majorLoanwordSource
Italic languages ("Portuguese") →	notableDescendantLanguage
AR ("Portuguese") →	officialLanguageUsed
Portuguese Armed Forces ("Portuguese") →	primaryLanguage
Cape Verdean Creole ("Portuguese") →	primaryLexifier
Galician language →	sharesLiteraryTraditionWith
African Portuguese ("European Portuguese") →	standardLanguage
African Portuguese →	subclassOf
Umbundu ("Portuguese") →	usedAlongside
José de Anchieta ("Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil") →	wrote