Portuguese is spoken across Portugal, Brazil and several other countries in Africa and Asia. With a global reach, it is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages.
Portuguese
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Classification
Indo-European > Romance
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Speakers
220 million
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Script
Roman
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Text direction
Left-to-right
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Official language
Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor
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Also spoken
Macau, Goa
Portuguese
Portuguese is the fifth most natively spoken language in the world with most native speakers found in Brazil and Portugal, and in African countries such as Mozambique, Angola, Cap Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Sao Tome and Principe. Large populations of speakers of Portuguese or Portuguese creoles, are also found in East Timor, Macau, and parts of India. 9 of the 10 largest Portuguese speaking cities are in Brazil.
The Spanish region of Galicia, which borders Portugal, speaks Galician, a language that is related to Portuguese and has more in common with Portuguese than it does with Spanish.
At Geo Language Services, we offer translations that reflect the nuances of both European and Brazilian Portuguese, ensuring your message is accurately conveyed to diverse Portuguese-speaking communities worldwide.
Services offered for this language
Translation / Transcreation / Subtitling / Localization / Adaptation / Copywriting / Authoring / Proofreading / Revision / Editing / Translation quality assurance / Terminology / Linguistic validation / Glossary creation / Dubbing / Voice-overs / Transcription / Typesetting / Simultaneous interpreting / Consecutive interpreting / Conference interpreting / Telephone interpreting / Public service interpreting / Interpreting equipment hire / Foreign language consulting
Interesting fact
One of the best-known English loanwords from European Portuguese is "mosquito", which means "little fly".
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