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

Barlavento Creoles hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Estância hasOfficialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Wapishana language usedAlongside Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Palikur language usedAlongside Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Mehináku language hasContactLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Mehináku language hasBorrowingsFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Caucaia officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Manado Malay hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Ambon Malay influencedBy Portuguese language
Anita languageOfOrigin Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
São Nicolau Creole developedFrom Portuguese language
São Nicolau Creole hasInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
São Nicolau Creole hasSociolinguisticRelationWith Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Standard Portuguese
Bissau officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Bissau languageOfToponym Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Maio Creole lexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Maio Creole usedAlongside Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Tariana language hasBorrowingFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Tetun language coOfficialWith Portuguese language
Upper Guinea Creoles primaryLexifier Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Boa Vista Creole lexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Boa Vista Creole hasInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Badiu Creole lexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Badiu Creole influencedBy Portuguese language
Ema usedInLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Timorese people usesLanguage Portuguese language
Silvia hasLanguageOfUse Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Ternate language lexicalBorrowingFrom Portuguese language
Paulina usedInLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Guimarães officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
tet coOfficialWith Portuguese language
subject surface form: Tetum
this entity surface form: Portuguese
tet influencedBy Portuguese language
subject surface form: Tetum
tet hasSignificantLoanwordsFrom Portuguese language
subject surface form: Tetum
Valter hasLanguageUsage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Italo-Western Romance languages includesLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Aloysius usedInLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
DF languageOfAbbreviation Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Fa d’Ambô lexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Annobonese Creole primaryLexifierLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Annobonese Creole developedFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Annobonese Creole hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Annobonese Creole hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Chaves languageOfOrigin Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Portuguese Wikiquote navigationLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Bahia officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Alvito officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Castro Verde language Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Vidigueira officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Mbini officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese
Kié-Ntem officialLanguage Portuguese language
this entity surface form: Portuguese