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Portuguese

Also known as Portuguese language

Western Romance language

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Portuguese is a Romance language spoken primarily in Portugal and Brazil, alongside communities in Africa and other parts of the world. It matters as a major global language with hundreds of millions of speakers and significant cultural and economic influence, particularly through Brazil's prominence.

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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.