Languages of Portugal
See language map.Republic of Portugal, República Portuguesa. 10,528,000. National or official languages: Portuguese, Miranda Do Douro (regional). Literacy rate: 83%–84%. Immigrant languages: Kabuverdianu (50,000). Also includes Arabic (27,000), and languages of Goa India (20,000), Timor Indonesia (3,000), Brazil (103,000), Angola and Mozambique (100,000), Cape Verde (3,000), and elsewhere in Africa (800,000). Information mainly from F. B. Agard 1984; B. Comrie 1987; André Du Nay 1977. Blind population: 8,225. Deaf population: 8,000 to 638,070 (1998). Deaf institutions: 16. The number of individual languages listed for Portugal is 8. Of those, all are living languages.
| Asturian | [ast]
25,000 in Portugal. Miranda do Douro.
Alternate names: Asturian-Leonese.
Dialects: West Asturian, Central Asturian (Bable).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Asturo-Leonese
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| Barranquian | [ext]
1,500 in Portugal. Barrancos County.
Alternate names: Barranquenho, Cahtúo, Cahtúö, Extremaduran, Ehtremeñu, Extremeño.
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian
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| Caló | [rmr]
5,000 in Portugal.
Alternate names: Calão, Gitano, Iberian Romani.
Dialects: Spanish Caló, Portuguese Calão (Calão, Lusitano-Romani), Catalonian Caló, Basque Caló, Brazilian Calão.
Classification: Mixed language, Iberian-Romani
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| Galician | [glg]
15,000 in Portugal (1994 SIL). North Trás-os-Montes Province.
Alternate names: Galego, Gallego.
Dialects: Rionorese (Rionorês), Guadramilese (Guadramilês).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician
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| Mirandese | [mwl]
15,000 (2000). 10,000 use regularly, 5,000 when they return to the area. 2,000 Sendinese in Sendim Vila. Northeast, Miranda do Douro and Vimioso counties, Tras-os-Montes southeast tip area; Spain border; Miranda City.
Alternate names: Mirandês.
Dialects: Mirandese Central (Miranadese Normal), Mirandés Setentrional (Mirandés Raiano), Mirandés Meridional (Mirandés Sendinês, Sendinês). 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
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| Portuguese | [por]
10,000,000 in Portugal. Population total all countries: 177,981,570. Iberia, Azores, Madeira. Also in Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, China, Congo, East Timor, France, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, India, Indonesia (Nusa Tenggara), Jamaica, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mozambique, Netherlands Antilles, Oman, Paraguay, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Príncipe, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zambia.
Alternate names: Português.
Dialects: Beiran (Beirão), Alentejan (Alentejano), Algarvian (Algarvio), Minhotan (Minhoto), Transmontan (Transmontano), Madeirese (Madeirense), Azorean (Açoriano), Estremenho, Brazilian Portuguese. Standard Portuguese of Portugal is based on Estremenho dialect (Lisbon and Coimbra).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician
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| Portuguese Sign Language | [psr]
Used by many of 8,000 deaf persons (Van Cleve 1986).
Alternate names: Lingua Gestual Portuguesa.
Dialects: Lisbon, Oporto. Not derived from Portuguese. Different dialects in 2 different deaf schools in Lisbon and Oporto. Related to Swedish Sign Language [swl].
Classification: Deaf sign language
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| Romani, Vlax | [rmy]
500 in Portugal.
Dialects: Kalderash.
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax
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