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Languages of Portugal

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Official languages
  
Portuguese

Common keyboard layouts
  
Portuguese QWERTY

Languages of Portugal

Main foreign languages
  
English (32%) French (24%) Spanish (9%)

Sign languages
  
Portuguese Sign Language

Source
  
ebs_243_en.pdf (europa.eu)

The languages of Portugal are the languages spoken or once spoken in the territory of the country of Portugal.

Contents

Map of Portugal

Modern

Portuguese is practically universal in Portugal, but there are some specificities.

  • Portuguese language (European Portuguese), with the following dialects:
  • The Southern and Central dialects - They include the dialect of the capital, Lisbon, which, however, has some peculiarities of its own. Although the dialects of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira have unique characteristics, as well, they can also be grouped with the southern dialects.
  • 1 - Açoriano — Azores
  • 2 - Alentejano — Alentejo
  • 3 - Algarvio — Algarve (there is a particular small dialect in the western area)
  • 5 - Baixo-Beirão; Alto-Alentejano — Central Portugal (interior)
  • 6 - Beirão — central Portugal
  • 7 - Estremenho — Regions of Coimbra and Lisbon (can be subdivided in Lisbon Portuguese and Coimbra Portuguese)
  • 8 - Madeirense — Madeira
  • The Northern dialects - This includes the dialect of Porto, Portugal's second largest city.
  • 4 - Alto-Minhoto — North of Braga (interior)
  • 9 - Nortenho — Regions of Braga and Porto
  • 10 - Transmontano — Trás-os-Montes
  • Barranquenho - In the town of Barrancos (in the border between Extremadura, Andalusia and Portugal), a dialect of Portuguese heavily influenced by Extremaduran is spoken, known as Barranquenho.
  • Minderico - a sociolect or argot spoken in Minde, practically extinct
  • Mirandese language - A dialect of Astur-Leonese spoken in Miranda do Douro in northeastern Portugal, recognized officially as a minority language in 1999.
  • Portuguese Sign Language
  • Historically

    Other languages have been extensively spoken in the territory of modern Portugal:

    Pre-Roman languages

  • Proto-Celtic & Celtic languages
  • Celtiberian language
  • Gallaecian language
  • Tartessian language
  • Lusitanian language
  • Roman, Post-Roman and Medieval languages

  • Arabic language
  • Andalusi Arabic
  • Classical Arabic
  • Berber languages
  • Germanic languages
  • Gothic language
  • Suebi language
  • Vandalic language
  • Latin language
  • Vulgar Latin
  • Iberian Romance languages
  • Galician-Portuguese
  • Astur-Leonese
  • Mirandese language
  • Mozarabic languages
  • Judeo-Romance languages
  • Judeo-Portuguese
  • Scythian languages
  • Alanic language
  • References

    Languages of Portugal Wikipedia