Languages of Portugal
The languages of Portugal are the Portuguese, Mirandese and Portuguese Sign Language. Historically, Celtic and Lusitanian were spoken in what is now Portugal.
Languages of Portugal | |
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Official | Portuguese |
Regional | Mirandese |
Foreign | English (27%)[1] French (15%) Spanish (10%) |
Signed | Portuguese Sign Language |
Keyboard layout | |
Source | ebs_243_en.pdf (europa.eu) |
Modern
Portuguese is practically universal in Portugal, but there are some specificities.
- Dialects of the Portuguese in Portugal
- Alentejan Portuguese
- Algarvean Portuguese
- Azorean Portuguese (micaelense)
- Beiran Portuguese
- Estremaduran Portuguese
- Galician Portuguese (interâmnico)
- Madeiran Portuguese
- 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
Roman, Post-Roman and Medieval languages
- Arabic language
- Berber languages
- Germanic languages
- Latin language
- Scythian languages
References
- "SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-06.
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