ISO 639-3 · porpor
Indo-European family
Portuguese
português
Portuguese is a language of the Galician–Portuguese branch (Indo-European), spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe and 9 more countries. Wikidata counts 221 m first-language speakers (2019) and 6.3 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Western Romance language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
por- ISO 639-1
pt- Glottocode
port1283- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 40.00, -8.00
- Wikipedia
- 296 language editions
221 mfirst-language speakers
6.3 msecond-language speakers
13countries
2scripts
10levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Portuguese · português |
|---|---|
| Also called | Portuguese language |
| L1 speakers | 221,000,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 6,300,000 (2012) |
| Written in | Portuguese alphabet, Latin script |
| Official in | Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Brazil, Portugal, East Timor, Angola, Equatorial Guinea |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Portuguese
The branches above Portuguese, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Guinea-Bissauofficial · 21 languages in the indexCape Verdeofficial · 2 languages in the indexMozambiqueofficial · 39 languages in the indexSão Tomé and Príncipeofficial · 5 languages in the indexBrazilofficial · 207 languages in the indexPortugalofficial · 9 languages in the indexEast Timorofficial · 24 languages in the indexAngolaofficial · 35 languages in the indexEquatorial Guineaofficial · 15 languages in the indexSpain20 languages in the indexTaiwan33 languages in the indexChina247 languages in the indexIndia395 languages in the index
Also spoken in Guinea-Bissau
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