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Portuguese is a natural, modern language classified as a fusional, synthetic, and syllabic language with a subject–verb–object linguistic typology. It is a subclass of Galician–Portuguese and possesses grammatical gender, including masculine and feminine forms. The language is written using the Latin script and the Portuguese alphabet. Its native label is português.
Indigenous to Portugal and the Azores, Portuguese is spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, and Angola. Regulatory bodies include the International Portuguese Language Institute, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the Brazilian Academy of Letters, and the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. The language is studied through Portuguese studies. A dedicated heritage entity for the language is the Museum of the Portuguese Language.
The language is referenced by 19,353 other encyclopedia articles. It appears on the Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have and the Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 focus lists. Its Wikimedia language code is pt. Films in this language are categorized under Category:Portuguese-language films.
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- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Galician–Portuguese
- Country
- India
- Image
- Breve discurso em que se contem a conquista do Reyno de Pegu na Índia Oriental, pelos portuguezes em tempo do Viso-Rey Ayres de Saldanha; sendo capitam Salvador Ribeiro de Souza, chamado Massinga, natural de Guimaraens. Rei do Pegu.JPG
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- topic's main category
- Category:Portuguese language
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- linguistic typology
- pro-drop language
- language regulatory body
- Academy of Sciences of Lisbon
- category for films in this language
- Category:Portuguese-language films
- has grammatical gender
- feminine
- native label
- português
- Commons category
- Portuguese language
- studied by
- Portuguese studies
- short name
- portugalski
- writing system
- Latin script
- history of topic
- history of Portuguese
- Wikimedia language code
- pt
- indigenous to
- Azores
- topic has template
- Template:Pt icon
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Wiktionary:About Portuguese
- Stack Exchange site URL
- pt.stackoverflow.com
- dedicated heritage entity
- Museum of the Portuguese Language
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wy/pt
- P10369
- December
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 6300000
- has tense
- pluperfect
- P11012
- English
- entry in abbreviations table
- португ.
- has phoneme
- voiceless bilabial plosive
- P13311
- Volio Waterfall
- replaces
- Galician–Portuguese
- category for music in this language
- Category:Lusophone music
- female form of label
- la langue portugaise
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C120586
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Encyclopedic overview
Portuguese (endonym: português) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language 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. It is the official language of nine countries — Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Equatorial Guinea, and Timor-Leste — and is co-official with other languages in Macau and Equatorial Guinea.
Portuguese-speaking people or nations are known as Lusophone (lusófono). As a result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has retained some Celtic phonology.
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