Native speakers: 5 million (2020)[1] L2 speakers: 8 million (2020)[1]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latin
Romance
Western Romance
Ibero-Romance
West-Iberian
Galician-Portuguese
Portuguese
Mozambican Portuguese
Writing system
Latin (Portuguese alphabet)
Portuguese Braille
Official status
Official language in
Mozambique
Regulated by
Academia de Ciências de Moçambique
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
None
IETF
pt-MZ
Mozambican Portuguese (Portuguese: português moçambicano) refers to the varieties of Portuguese spoken in Mozambique. Portuguese is the official language of the country.
Several variables factor into the emergence of Mozambican Portuguese. Mozambique shares the linguistic norm used in the other Portuguese-speaking African countries and Portugal. Mozambican Portuguese also enriches the Portuguese language with new words and expressions.
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Many Mozambicans also resented Portugal's policies towards indigenous people, which resulted in discrimination and limited access to Portuguese-style...
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national population and housing census found out that Portuguese is spoken by 47.3% of all Mozambicans aged 5 and older, with native speakers making up 16...
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been an active collaborator of Gungunhana. Under Portuguese rule, his father, like most Black Mozambicans, was classified by the demeaning term "indígena"...
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transcription delimiters. Portuguese dialects are the mutually intelligible variations of the Portuguese language in Portuguese-speaking countries and other...
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and Portuguese rule, and has expanded since independence in 1975. The majority of its inhabitants are black Africans. Its main language is Portuguese. Its...
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armed campaign against Portuguese colonial rule. Portugal had ruled Mozambique for more than four hundred years; not all Mozambicans desired independence...
African tribal chiefs, Arab Muslim traders and Portuguese and other European traders as well. Many Mozambican slaves were supplied by tribal chiefs who raided...
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territory from the Portuguese. The Mozambican War of Independence came to an end in 1974 following a leftist military coup in Portugal. The new left-wing...
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The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former...
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