Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Chinese S.A.R. of Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe
Official status:
African Union, European Union, Union of South American Nations, Mercosur, Organization of American States, Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Total speakers:
177 million speakers
Portuguese language (língua portuguesa) — is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal from the Latin spoken by romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the Celtici and the Conii) about 2000 years ago.
Portuguese is a pluricentric language with two main groups of dialects, those of Brazil and those of the Old World.
For historical reasons, the dialects of Africa and Asia are generally closer to those of Portugal than the Brazilian dialects, although in some aspects of their phonetics, especially the pronunciation of unstressed vowels, they resemble Brazilian Portuguese more than European Portuguese.
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