Languages of Portugal
Languages of Portugal | |
---|---|
Official | Portuguese |
Regional | Mirandese |
Foreign | English (25%)[1] French (15%) Spanish (10%) |
Signed | Portuguese Sign Language |
Keyboard layout | |
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.
- 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[]
Roman, Post-Roman and Medieval languages[]
- Arabic language
- Berber languages
- Germanic languages
- Latin language
- Vulgar Latin
- Iberian Romance languages
- Galician-Portuguese
- Astur-Leonese
- Mozarabic languages
- Judeo-Romance languages
- Judeo-Portuguese
- Iberian Romance languages
- Vulgar Latin
- Scythian languages
- Alanic language
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-06.
External links[]
Categories:
- Languages of Portugal
- Portuguese language
- Paleohispanic languages
- Extinct languages of Europe