Olá!
say it: “oh-LAH”
Portuguese
in its own words: português
- Speakers
- 265 million (estimate)
- Family
- Indo-European – Romance
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, France, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Portugal, Paraguay and 3 more
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macao, Mozambique, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, Timor-Leste
Fun fact
Most speakers of Portuguese live in Brazil, which has more than two hundred million inhabitants.