The Forgotten Romance Language

The Portuguese language is the fifth most spoken language in the world. However, it is often forgotten as the third most prominent romantic language.

There are over 200 million people speak Portuguese throughout the world. Internationally was separated during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the establishment of the rule of Portugal. The Portuguese developed from Vulgar Latin brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Roman conquerors and was distinguishable from Latin by the 11th cent.


Derive the standard Portuguese language now known historically spoken in Lisbon and Coimbra. Its vocabulary comes from Latin overwhelming, but a number of words have been absorbed from Arabic, French, and Italian, and also some South American and African indigenous languages.

Portuguese is a member of the Italic subfamily which in turn is part of the Indo-European family of languages. It is currently the main language spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, t is also spoken in Macao and in some areas of India that the former Portuguese colonies including the regions of Goa, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Minority groups also spoken in neighboring regions near Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay due to the migration of Brazilians largely involved in business activities.

The Portuguese-speaking countries are members of the community of Portuguese-speaking countries, an organization founded in 1996. The language spoken in Portugal differs slightly from the Portuguese spoken in Brazil in areas of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.

A distinctive phonetic feature of Portuguese is the Nasalization of certain vowels and diphthongs, which can be indicated by a tilde placed over the appropriate vowel. The acute accents and diacritical marks used to clarify the stress and pronunciation and to distinguish homonyms.

The speaker directs the grave accent in pronunciation. It can also indicate a contraction, as in às, which is a combination of "" and as "" (feminine plural). The A.C. with a cedilla (ç) is pronounced like c in English place when used before the vowels a, o, and U.

Like Spanish, Portuguese has two forms of the verb "to be": be, which denotes a comparatively permanent state and which also precedes a predicate noun, and estar, which denotes a comparatively temporary condition.

The Portuguese, like their Spanish counterparts, tends to use reflexive verbs instead of passive voice.