Languages of Portugal
| Languages of Portugal | |
|---|---|
| Official | Portuguese |
| Regional | Mirandese |
| Foreign | English (35%)[1] Arabic (3%) Spanish (20%) |
| Signed | Portuguese Sign Language |
| Keyboard layout | |
| Source | ebs_243_en.pdf (europa.eu) |
The languages of Portugal are Portuguese, Mirandese and Portuguese Sign Language. Historically, Celtic and Lusitanian were spoken in what is now Portugal.
Modern[edit]
Portuguese is practically universal in Portugal, but there are some specificities.
- Dialects of Portuguese in Portugal
- Barranquenho – In the town of Barrancos (in the border between Extremadura, Andalusia and Portugal), a dialect of Portuguese heavily influenced by Spanish 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[edit]
Other languages have been extensively spoken in the territory of modern Portugal:
Pre-Roman languages[edit]
Roman, Post-Roman and Medieval languages[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "SPECIAL EUROBAROMETER 386 Europeans and their Languages" (PDF). ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-06.
External links[edit]
- Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
- Detailed linguistic map of the Iberian Peninsula
