What types of languages are there in Portugal?

Answer 1

Two countries where Portuguese is the major offcial language are the Latin American country of Brazil, and the southern European country of Portugal. The former has the world's largest Portuguese-speaking population. The latter is the original source for the spread of the Portuguese language throughout the world.

Answer 2

The types of languages in Portugal fit into the Romancefamily. For the Romance languages trace their origins to the ancient interactions between the Latin language of the ancient Roman conquerors and the ancient languages of France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Spain. In the specific case of Portuguese, that interaction impacted the ancient languages of the Iberian Peninsula. From that impact evolved the modern Portuguese and Spanish languages. Just as much as Portuguese resembles, and yet differs from, Spanish, the same can be said of Portuguese and Galician. For Galician is spoken in the northwestern Spanish province of Galicia, which forms Portugal's northern border. And Portuguese and Galician form the Galician-Portugueselinguistic grouping within the Romance family of languages.

Answer 3

Portuguese is the official language of the Republic of Portugal. But one of two local languages that are linked to the country's history, and to regional culture, is Mirandese, which is officially recognized as a regional language. About 5,000 people are estimated to be native speakers of this language of northeastern Portugal. But if the tally includes bilingual speakers of Mirandese and Portuguese, then the numbers increase to 12,000, out of a total national population of 10,676,910, according to 2008 estimates. Another local language, which likewise is often ka a dialect, is Barraquinhos. It's spoken along the Portuguese border with the Spanish provinces of Andalucia and Extremadura. And it therefore shows the particular interaction between Extremaduran Spanish and Portuguese.