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The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. Old Portuguese, also known as Medieval Galician, began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Germanic invasions, also known as barbarian invasions, in the 5th century, and started appearing in ...
Portuguese is spoken by approximately 200 million people in South America, 30 million in Africa, 15 million in Europe, 5 million in North America and 0.33 million in Asia and Oceania. It is the native language of the vast majority of the people in Portugal, [41] Brazil [42] and São Tomé and Príncipe (95%). [43]
Portuguese heritage is also present in Bangladesh, where they were the first Europeans to arrive: not only did the Portuguese introduce Catholicism, a religion now professed by about 375,000 Bangladeshis, but their heritage extends also to more than 1,500 words in Bengali that are of Portuguese origin.
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,001 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis . The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
The Portuguese steak, bife, is a slice of fried beef or pork marinated in spices and served in a wine-based sauce with fried potatoes, rice, or salad. An egg, sunny-side up, may be placed on top of the meat, in which case the dish acquires a new name, bife com ovo a cavalo (steak with an egg on horseback).
Angola. Brazil (see Brazilian Portuguese) Cape Verde. Timor-Leste ( co-official with Tetum; 51,800 L1 speakers as of 2007) [1] [2] Equatorial Guinea (co-official with Spanish and French) Guinea-Bissau. Mozambique. Portugal. São Tomé and Príncipe.
Geographical distribution of Portuguese speakers. This article provides details regarding the geographical distribution of all Portuguese-speakers, a.k.a. Lusophones, regardless of legislative status. The Portuguese language is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and is an official language of countries on four continents.
Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish. Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Both belong to a subset of the Romance languages known as West Iberian Romance, which also includes several other languages or dialects with fewer speakers, all of which are ...