Nowadays there are over 4,500 Brazilian and 800 Portuguese nationals registered as formal immigrants in Mexico.
There are also many descendants of both Portuguese and Brazilian nationals, but most often than not, these are bilingual (Spanish/Portuguese). Also many people speak Portuguese for business reasons, but these are very difficult, if not impossible to count.
Portuguese consistently ranks as number six on the list of the ten most spoken languages in the world. The total of the world's population hovers around 6.77 billion, as of April 2009. But the estimates of total numbers of Portuguese speakers ranges from 176 million to 230 million. Based on the first, lower figure, the percentage of the world's population that speaks Portuguese is 2.09%. Based on the second, higher figure, the percentage is 3.35%.
Native: 210 million
Total: 230 million
It's the sixth most spoken language in the world
As of 2013, about 215 million people in the world speak Portuguese.
Portuguese is the only official language of Brazil. It is the most widely used language and is almost exclusively used in the entire country.
You're joking right? Everybody in Brazil speaks Portuguese as it's the native language. About 192 million people there speak Portuguese.
99.9%.
There are some people who speak native Indian languages, but almost all of these speak Portuguese as well.
As of 2007, about 2.45 million.
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most do, Brazil speaks Portuguese, all the others speak Spanish with many different dialects depending on which country and what region.
Brazil is the unique south american country whose official and most spoken language is the Portuguese Language. Many other countries have portuguese as a secondary language, but when a question is asked that way, the only valid answer is the primary spoken language.
many peole there speak Chinese and eglish
In 2013, it was estimated that about 37.6 million people over the age of 5 speak Spanish in the United States.
Many Portuguese people speak English as a second language, especially in urban areas and among younger generations. English is commonly taught in schools and is widely used in tourism and business in Portugal.
Many Portuguese people can speak English, especially in more urban areas and among younger generations. However, the level of proficiency may vary among individuals.
Roughly 420 million people in Latin America speak Spanish as their primary language.
About 280 million.
There is no such language. Spanish is the language spoken in Mexico, and some 116 million people in Mexico speak it.
Because they were colonized by the portuguese; that's the reason why brazil speak portuguese also.
With around 272.9 million speakers, Portuguese is the fifth-most spoken language in the world.
do people in Brazil speak English? nowadays 35% population in brazil speaks English
EnglishIt's def NOT french, and def English. There is a minority population who speak Portuguese, mainly Azorean Portuguese.
Almost all of Brazil speaks Portuguese for approximately 190 million native speakers. After the creation of MercoSur, many other South American nations, particularly Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay, started studying Portuguese as a foreign language, which means a few million more people with varying levels of knowledge of the language. In turn, a little less than 200 million people speak Portuguese in South America.
In Mexico, approximately 1.65 million people still speak various Mayan languages as a first or second language. In Guatemala, 1.08 million people also speak one of the several dialects of Mayan languages.
In southeastern Mexico, including the Yucatan Peninsula and the state of Chiapas, which borders Guatemala to the east.