Portuguese is spoken in approximately 250 million people in Portugal, Brazil, and other former Portuguese colonies. It is the eighth most spoken language and the third most spoken European language in the world. It is one of the five Romance languages, besides Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian. The difference between Brazilian and European Portuguese is far wide, including variations in phonology, verb conjugation, and syntax.
Portuguese spoken in:
Angola, Andorra, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Luxembourg, Macau (China), Mozambique, Namibia, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and other countries
