Portuguese of Portugal Iberian portuguese Peninsular Portuguese
Português europeu
Native to
Portugal
Native speakers
10 million (2012)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Latin
Romance
Italo-Western
Western Romance
Iberian Romance
West Iberian
Galician-Portuguese
Portuguese
European Portuguese
Dialects
Açoriano
Alentejan
Estremenho
Barranquenho
Northern
Minderico (Separate Language)
Algarvio
Transmontano
Writing system
Latin (Portuguese alphabet)
Portuguese Braille
Official status
Official language in
Portugal
Regulated by
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
None
IETF
pt-PT
Dialectical continuum of Iberian Romance languages including European Portuguese and its dialects.[image reference needed]
Sara, a speaker of European Portuguese
European Portuguese (Portuguese: português europeu, pronounced[puɾtuˈɣezewɾuˈpew]), also known as Portuguese of Portugal (Portuguese: português de Portugal), Iberian Portuguese (Portuguese: português ibérico), and Peninsular Portuguese (Portuguese: português peninsular), refers to the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Guinea-Bissau. The word "European" was chosen to avoid the clash of "Portuguese Portuguese" ("português português") as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese.
Portuguese is a pluricentric language; it is the same language with several interacting codified standard forms in many countries. Portuguese is a Romance language with Celtic, Germanic, Greek, and Arabic influence. It was spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before as Galician-Portuguese. With the formation of Portugal as a country in the 12th century, the language evolved into Portuguese. In the Spanish province of Galicia to the north of Portugal, the native language is Galician. Both Portuguese and Galician are very similar and natives can understand each other as they share the same recent common ancestor. Portuguese and Spanish are different languages, although they share 89% of their lexicon.[2] European Portuguese is notable among Romance languages in that it is stress-timed, rather than syllable-timed; in this respect it differs even from Brazilian Portuguese.
^Portuguese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^Extra, Guus; Yaǧmur, Kutlay (2004). Urban Multilingualism in Europe: Immigrant Minority Languages at Home and School. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781853597787.
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