PORTUGAL

 

Languages of Portugal

Republic of Portugal, Portuguese Republic. National or official language: Portuguese. The number of languages spoken at the moment in Portugal is of 7:

ASTURIAN


CALÓ


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: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Castilian.

GALICIAN


15,000 in Tras Os Montes (1994 D. and N. Burns).

MIRANDA DO DOURO


10,000 (1995 SIL).

PORTUGUESE


10,000,000 in Portugal.

ROMANY, VLAX


500 Kalderash in Portugal. Dialects: KALDERASH. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Romani, Vlax.

- Linguistic information taken of "Ethnologue"

 

Romany associations