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Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, [6] and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau.
Portuguese is the sole official language of Angola, and 85% of the population profess fluency in the language. [26] Additionally, 75% of Angolan households speak Portuguese as their primary language, and native Bantu languages have been influenced by Portuguese through loanwords. [26]
European Portuguese Equatorial Guinea: Africa 1,795,834 [21] Brazilian Portuguese East Timor: Asia 1,245,000 [22] East Timorese Portuguese Guinea-Bissau: Africa 1,110,000 [23] Guinean Portuguese Macau: Asia 641,000 [24] Macanese Portuguese Cape Verde: Africa 499,000 [25] Cape Verdean Portuguese Sao Tome and Principe: Africa 212,679 [26] Sao ...
This is a ranking of languages by number of sovereign countries in which they are de jure or de facto official, although there are no precise inclusion criteria or definition of a language. An '*' (asterisk) indicates a country whose independence is disputed.
The PALOP, highlighted in red. The Portuguese-speaking African countries (Portuguese: Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa; PALOP), also known as Lusophone Africa, consist of six African countries in which the Portuguese language is an official language: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and, since 2011, Equatorial Guinea. [1]
Portuguese control of South America in 1754. (Green) Brazil is the largest country in which Portuguese is spoken in all of the Americas, with a population of approximately 220 million people, almost all of whom are native speakers of Portuguese. The size of this population renders Portuguese an important regional and world language.
There is a striking uniformity in Brazilian Portuguese; A large number of Brazilians speak Portuguese poorly while in Portugal people speak it very well; Portuguese is difficult to learn and speak; People that have had poor education can't speak anything correctly; In the state of Maranhão people speak a better Portuguese than elsewhere in Brazil
After the Angolan Civil War, many people moved to the cities where they learned Portuguese. When they returned to the countryside, more people were speaking Portuguese as a first language. The variant of the Portuguese language used in Angola is known as Angolan Portuguese. Phonetically, this variant is very similar to the Mozambican variant ...