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Name: Portuguese
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Português; Portugiesisch
Spoken in: USA, Uruguay, Belgium, Jamaica, South Africa, Congo, Spain, India, Malawi, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, France, Paraguay, Suriname, China, Germany, Namibia, Oman, Portugal, East Timor, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, Guyana, Switzerland, Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Luxembourg, Mozambique, Andorra, Angola, Indonesia, São Tomé e Príncipe
Number of speakers: 10,000,000 in Portugal. Population total all countries: 177,981,570 (Ethnologue)
Code: por
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Language: Portuguese-Galician; Old Portuguese (079)
Child Dialect Groups: Northern Portuguese (por-nor) Central Portuguese (por-cen) Southern Portuguese (por-sou) Northeast Portuguese (por-nea)
Child Dialects: Brazilian Portuguese (por-bra) Madeirense; Madeira-Azores; Madeirese; Madeira (por-mad) Açoriano; Azorean; Azores (por-azo) Oliventino (por-oli)

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