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  2. Portuguese ( endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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  3. The Portuguese Wikipedia (Portuguese: Wikipédia em português) is the Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free encyclopedia. It was started on 11 May 2001.

    • May 11, 2001; 22 years ago
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  4. The Portuguese language is the third-most spoken western language (after English and Spanish). There are about 240 million native speakers, including the people of Portugal, Brazil, and Cape Verde ( Cabo Verde ). It is also an official language of Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique ( Moçambique ), Equatorial Guinea, and São Tomé ...

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  5. The Portuguese Wikipedia is the Portuguese language edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. It was started on 11 May 2001.

  6. The Portuguese Wikipedia (In Portuguese: Wikipédia em Português) is the Portuguese-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in June 2001. It is the 15th largest edition by article count. It currently has over 1,000,000 articles. References

  7. History of Portuguese. The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. Old Portuguese, also known as Medieval Galician, began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Germanic invasions, also ...

  8. Portuguese language, Romance language spoken by about 170 million people in Portugal, Brazil, and other former Portuguese colonies. The first literary works in Portuguese date from the 13th–14th century. Standard Portuguese is based on the dialect of Lisbon.

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