Languages of Portugal

Languages of Portugal
Official	Portuguese
Regional	Mirandese
Foreign	English (25%)[1] French (15%) Spanish (10%)
Signed	Portuguese Sign Language
Keyboard layout	QWERTY
Source	ebs_243_en.pdf (europa.eu)

The languages of Portugal are the Portuguese, Mirandese and Portuguese Sign Language. Historically, Celtic and Lusitanian were spoken in what is now Portugal.

Modern[]

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

Portuguese dialects of Portugal

• Dialects of the Portuguese in Portugal
  • Alentejan Portuguese
  • [1]
  • (micaelense)
  • Beiran Portuguese
  • Estremaduran Portuguese
  • Galician Portuguese (interâmnico)
  • [2]
• 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.
• Caló language - spoken by the Romani people in Portugal
• 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[]

Pre-Roman languages of Iberia c. 200 BC.

• 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

See also[]

• Iberian languages
• Languages of Spain
• Iberian Romance languages

References[]

External links[]

• Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
• Detailed linguistic map of the Iberian Peninsula