Portugal

Extensive List of Languages of Portugal: Spoken and Extinct 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

:: Reference ::
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/

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