5 Reasons to Learn Portuguese! #portuguese #portugal
10Portuguese is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as "Lusophone" (Lusófono). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found around the world.
Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology and lexicon.With approximately 255 to 277 million native speakers and 320 million total speakers, Portuguese is usually listed as the fifth most natively spoken language in the world. It is also the third-most spoken European language in the world in terms of native speakers. Being the most widely spoken language in South America . and all of the Southern Hemisphere,. it's also the second-most spoken language, after Spanish, in Latin America, one of the 5 most spoken languages in Africa. and is an official language of the European Union, Mercosur, OAS, ECOWAS and the African Union. The Community of Portuguese Language Countries is an international organization made up of all of the world's officially Lusophone nations.
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