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Republic of Portugal, República Portuguesa. 10,524,145. National or official languages: Portuguese, Miranda Do Douro (regional). Literacy rate: 83% to 84%. Also includes Kabuverdianu (50,000), Arabic (27,000), from Goa India (20,000), Timor Indonesia (3,000), Brazil (103,000), Angola or Mozambique (100,000), Cape Verde (3,000), elsewhere in Africa (800,000). Information mainly from André Du Nay 1977; F. B. Agard 1984; B. Comrie 1987. Blind population: 8,225. Deaf population: 8,000 to 638,070 (1998). Deaf institutions: 16. The number of languages listed for Portugal is 7. Of those, all are living languages.
List of Languages
Asturian [ast] 25,039 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
Caló [rmr] 5,000 in Portugal. Alternate names: Calão, Gitano, Iberian Romani. Dialects: Spanish Calo, Portuguese Calão (Calão, Lusitano-Romani), Catalonian Calo, Basque Calo, Brazilian Calão. Classification: Mixed Language, Iberian-Romani
Galician [glg] 15,000 in Tras Os Montes (1994 SIL). Northern provinces of Entre-Minho-e-Douro and Trazoz-Montes (Tras Os Montes). Alternate names: Galego, Gallego. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician
Miranda do Douro [mwl] 15,000 (2000). 10,000 who use it regularly, 5,000 use it when they return to the area. Northeast Portugal, southeastern tip of Tras Os Montes area, on the Spain border, at the latitude of Zamora, city of Miranda. Alternate names: Mirandesa, Mirandese. Dialects: Related to Asturian and Leonés. Probably separated from them at the time of the invasion of the Moors. Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Asturo-Leonese
Portuguese [por] 10,000,000 in Portugal. Population total all countries: 177,457,180. Iberia, Azores, Madeira. Also spoken in Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, China, Congo, East Timor, France, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Oman, Paraguay, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé e Príncipe, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA. Alternate names: Português. Dialects: Beira, Galician, Madeira-Azores, Estremenho, Brazilian Portuguese. Standard Portuguese of Portugal is based on Southern or Estremenho dialect (Lisbon and Coimbra). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician
Portuguese Sign Language [psr] Used by a considerable portion of the 8,000 deaf persons; 1986 Gallaudet Univ. 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. Classification: Deaf sign language
Romani, Vlax [rmy] 500 Kalderash in Portugal. Dialects: Kalderash. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax
Resources and Citations
Courtesy of Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/.