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Portuguese is the official, and the most widely spoken, language in the Republic of Portugal. Its use must be around 98%. What keeps the Portuguese language from representing 100% of the population are monolingual speakers of Mirandese, and users of the Portuguese Sign Language. Mirandese has the special, government recognized status of regional language of national importance to the Republic. It's spoken in northern Portugal by an estimated total of 12,000 speakers. Of that number, 7,000 are estimated to be bilingual speakers of Mirandese and Portuguese. The remaining 5,000 are monolingual speakers, who represent 1/200 of 1%, or 0.005%, of the total Portuguese population. The hearing disabled number around 150,000 out of the total Portuguese population of over 10 million. There's no estimate on the number of disabled who are deaf. Not all of the hearing disabled, and not even all of the deaf, sign. But a percentage based on the total hearing disabled is 1.5%. Over half of the Portuguese population is bilingual in Portuguese and another, major language that isn't native to the Republic. The top three languages in that category are English, French, and Spanish. Anywhere from 26%-32% of the population speaks Portuguese and English. Another 24% speaks Portuguese and French. And yet another 9% speaks Portuguese and Spanish.

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