Portugal
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Asturian
[ast] Bragança District, Miranda do Douro and Vimioso municipalities, 2 towns. 10,000 in Portugal (Salminen 2007). Status: 6b (Threatened). Alternate Names: Asturian-Leonese Dialects: Central Asturian (Bable), West Asturian.
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Asturo-Leonese Comments: Literature since 17th century: poetry, traditional ballads, and chivalric novels of oral tradition. Although Academy of the Asturian Language formed in 1981, use in decline due to lack of government support due to overwhelming immigration into the region. Western Asturian may need orthography adaptation.
Barranquian
[ext] Beja District, Barrancos municipality. 1,500 in Portugal. Status: 6b (Threatened). Alternate Names: Barranquenho, Cahtúo, Cahtúö, Ehtremeñu, Extremaduran, Extremeño Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
Caló
[rmq] 5,000 in Portugal. Status: 5 (Developing). Alternate Names: Calão, Gitano, Iberian Romani Dialects: Brazilian Calão, Catalonian Caló, Portuguese Calão, Spanish Caló.
Classification: Mixed language, Iberian-Romani Comments: Christian.
Galician
[glg] North Bragança and Vila Real districts. 15,000 in Portugal (1994 SIL). Status: 5 (Developing). Alternate Names: Galego, Gallego Dialects: Guadramilese (Guadramilês), Rionorese (Rionorês).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician
Kabuverdianu
[kea] 200,000 in Portugal (2012 SIL). Status: 5 (Developing). Classification: Creole, Portuguese based
Minderico
[drc] Santarém District, Alacanena municipality, Minde; Leiria District, Porto de Mós municipality, Mira de Aire. 500 (2010 V. Ferreira). Status: 8b (Nearly extinct). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician
Mirandese
[mwl] Bragança District, Miranda do Douro and Vimioso municipalities, Miranda city; Spain border. 15,000 (2000). 10,000 use it regularly, 5,000 when they return to the area. 2,000 Sendinese in Sendim Vila. Status: 2 (Provincial). Statutory language of provincial identity in 4 municipalities, northeast Portugal (1999, Law No. 7/99 of 29 January). Alternate Names: Mirandês Dialects: Mirandés Meridional (Mirandés Sendinês, Sendinês), Mirandés Setentrional (Mirandés Raiano), Mirandese Central (Miranadese Normal). Related to Asturian (Leonese) [ast]. Possibly separated when Moors invaded.
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Asturo-Leonese Comments: Have different dress style from their neighbors (black, handwoven cloth).
Portuguese
[por] Widespread; also, Azores and Madeira autonomous regions. Also in Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Macao, Congo, Curacao, East Timor, France, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mozambique, Paraguay, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Príncipe, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zambia. 10,600,000 in Portugal. Population total all countries: 202,468,100. Status: 1 (National). Statutory national language (2005, Constitution, Article 11(3)). Alternate Names: Português Dialects: Alentejan (Alentejano), Algarvian (Algarvio), Azorean (Açoriano), Beiran (Beirão), Brazilian Portuguese, Estremenho, Madeirese (Madeirense), Minhotan (Minhoto), Transmontan (Transmontano). Standard Portuguese of Portugal based on Estremenho dialect (Lisbon and Coimbra).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician Comments: Christian.
Portuguese Sign Language
[psr] Used by many of 8,000 deaf persons (Van Cleve 1986). Status: 6a (Vigorous). Alternate Names: Lingua Gestual Portuguesa Dialects: Lisbon, Oporto. Not derived from Portuguese [por]. Different dialects in 2 different deaf schools in Lisbon and Oporto. Related to Swedish Sign Language [swl].
Classification: Deaf sign language Comments: Signed Portuguese similar to Signed Swedish. Began in 1823.
Romani, Vlax
[rmy] 500 in Portugal. Status: 5 (Developing). Dialects: Kalderash.
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax Comments: Christian.