Portuguese is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European family, written in the Latin script. With approximately 267 million native speakers, it is the fifth most spoken native language in the world and the most widely spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountEthnologue total figure, 2012-2022. RegionPortugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and other Portuguese-speaking territories worldwide 1 Classification
Official Status Portuguese
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Source Wikipedia: Brazilian Portuguese
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Source Wikipedia: Portuguese Language
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Portugal, located there.
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1. Wikipedia: Portuguese Language
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With approximately 267 million native speakers, it is the fifth-most spoken native language in the world, and the most widely spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere.
Infobox, ISO 639-3
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Infobox, Speakers (Total)
267 million (2012-2022)
Infobox, Region
Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and other Portuguese-speaking territories worldwide
Official status, Portuguese entity page
It is the official language of eight countries, Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste, and is co-official with other languages in Macau and Equatorial Guinea.
In Family: Indo-European, Infobox, Language family
Indo-European > Italic > Latino-Faliscan > Latin > Romance > Italo-Western > Western Romance > Gallo-Iberian > Iberian Romance > West Iberian > Galician-Portuguese > Portuguese
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Wikimedia FoundationAncestor Of: Brazilian Portuguese, Lead sectionQuote, Ancestor Of: Brazilian Portuguese, Lead section
Brazilian Portuguese differs from varieties spoken in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries, particularly in phonology and prosody.
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