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.

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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

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Bayeux hasOfficialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Sousa languageUsed Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Mamanguape hasOfficialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Imbiribeira hasLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Ponto de Parada officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Beatrice hasLanguageUsage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Cecilia hasLanguageOfUse Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Nyanja hasLoanwordsFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Tianguá officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Baturité officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Corumbá officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Corumbá languageUsed Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Nossa Senhora do Socorro hasOfficialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Afogados languageUsed Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Macaxeira languageUsed Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Macaxeira hasOfficialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Pombal hasOfficialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Armando usedInLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Makua languages haveInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
Santana do Ipanema officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Acaraú language Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Laura usedInLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Réunion Creole hasVocabularyFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Tomas hasLanguageUsage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
OEI acronymLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
OEI officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Savage Islands hasOfficialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Papel usedAlongside Portuguese language
subject surface form: Papel language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Casamance Creole primaryLexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Casamance Creole hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Saramaccan language hasLexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Pamaka language influencedBy Portuguese language
Baba Malay hasSignificantInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Baba Malay hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Kupang Malay hasInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
Cabaceiras language Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Cabaceiras officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Caxangá hasLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Itapipoca officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Aracati officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Mateo hasLanguageOfUse Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Portuguese Creole developedFromLanguageContactBetween Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Ronga lexicalBorrowingInto Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Ronga languageContactWith Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Brava Creole lexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Brava Creole influencedBy Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Sal Creole primaryLexifier Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Sal Creole influencedBy Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Barlavento Creoles basedOnLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Barlavento Creoles primaryLexifier Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese