Portuguese language

E3583

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.

All labels observed (11)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (63)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-European language
Romance language
closelyRelatedTo Galician language
Spanish
surface form: Spanish language
coOfficialLanguageOf Angola
Cape Verde Islands
surface form: Cape Verde

Timor-Leste
surface form: 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 language
surface form: Galician-Portuguese

Old Portuguese
hasFeature grammatical gender
nasal vowels
verb conjugation by person and number
hasNativeName português
hasStandardForm Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
surface form: European Portuguese
hasWritingStandard Orthographic Agreement of 1990
ISO639-1Code pt
ISO639-2Code por
ISO639-3Code por
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
memberOf Community of Portuguese Language Countries
officialLanguageOf Angola
Brazil
Cape Verde Islands
surface form: Cape Verde

Timor-Leste
surface form: 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 Islands
surface form: Cape Verde

Timor-Leste
surface form: East Timor

Equatorial Guinea
Galicia
Goa
Guinea-Bissau
Macau
Mozambique
Portugal
São Tomé and Príncipe
subfamily Ibero-Romance languages
Romance languages
surface form: Western Romance languages
usedAs language of administration
language of education
language of media
official language
writingSystem Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (753)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

FIFA (indirectly through AFC) officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: FIFA
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Continental Region of Equatorial Guinea officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Itá, Santa Catarina officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Águas de Chapecó officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Distrito Federal officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Mariana officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Ponte da Barca officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Viana do Castelo District officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Ponte de Lima officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Monção officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Amares officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Terras de Bouro officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Uberaba officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Celorico de Basto officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Betim officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Cabeceiras de Basto officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Feira de Santana officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Babe officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Vitória da Conquista officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Rodelas, Bahia, Brazil officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Rodelas
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Santo Cristo area officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Santo Cristo
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Vila Nova da Baronia (parish) officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Vila Nova da Baronia
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Santa Bárbara de Padrões officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Sabóia officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Relíquias officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Cuba (municipality) officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Cachoeiras de Macacu officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Kié-Ntem Province officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Miguel Alves, Piauí, Brazil officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Miguel Alves
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Santos-Dumont municipality in Minas Gerais officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Santos-Dumont (Minas Gerais)
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Prefeitura Municipal de São José dos Campos officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
São José dos Campos officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
municipality of Seia officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
municipality of Covilhã officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
municipality of Celorico da Beira officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Celorico da Beira
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Santa Cruz, RN officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Santo André officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Alvalade officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Alvalade (Santiago do Cacém)
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Abela officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Municipality of Santiago do Cacém officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
São João de Meriti officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Belford Roxo officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
municipality of Aracati officialLanguage Portuguese language
subject surface form: Aracati
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Município de Grândola officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Alcácer do Sal officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Freguesia de Jacarepaguá officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
São Teotónio officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Lagoa municipality (Algarve) officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Santo Amaro das Brotas officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese