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Languages of Portugal

Languages of Portugal

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The languages of Portugal are Portuguese, Mirandese, Portuguese Sign Language, Leonese and Caló. With the inclusion of other linguistic entities like argots and transitional languages. Historically, Celtic and Lusitanian were spoken in what is now Portugal.

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Modern

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

Portuguese dialects of Portugal

In addition, it is estimated that 42.8% of Portuguese adults (aged 18–64) spoke English, 15.4% spoke French and 10.6% spoke Spanish as foreign languages as of 2016.[2]

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Romance languages

História de um louco criminoso (Story of a crazy criminal), written originally in Rionorese Leonese.

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*due to the fact that Minderico has no established grammar, merely a handful of invented adjectives and nouns using portuguese grammar, and due to the lack of information on it, it is not on the table.

*due to the lack of information on barranquenho, it is not on the table.

Caló

The Lord's Prayer

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Historically

Other languages have been extensively spoken in the territory of modern Portugal:

Pre-Roman languages

Pre-Roman languages of Iberia c. 200 BC.

Roman, Post-Roman and Medieval languages

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References

  1. "SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-06.
  2. "Portugueses falam cada vez mais (e melhor) línguas estrangeiras". www.dn.pt (in European Portuguese). 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2023-10-30.

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