Portuguese Language

Portuguese Translation & Portuguese Interpretation Services

Providing Professional Translation, Interpretation and Localization services in Portuguese and more than 200 other languages and dialects.

Autonym(s)

português

Number of Speakers

Native Speakers: 223 million; L2 Speakers: 25 million

Geographic Distribution

Portugal, South America, Africa, Australasia

Official or Recognized Status

Official: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe

Classification

Indo-European, Romance

Features

An inflected (fusional) language with subject-verb-object (SVO) word order. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles are assigned one of two genders and one of two numbers. Verbs are highly inflected, including three tenses, three moods, three aspects, three voices, and an inflected infinitive. Portuguese has also preserved more verbal inflections from classical Latin than other Romance languages.

Dialects

Continental Portuguese is the primary dialect spoken in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries, and Brazilian Portuguese is the dialect spoken in Brazil. The primary differences between are in accent and vocabulary, as well as a number of grammatical distinctions, most notably the 2nd person singular pronoun.

Writing System

Latin alphabet

U.S. Distribution

There are roughly 770,000 speakers of Portuguese in the United States. The majority of Portuguese-speaking immigrants originated in Brazil or Africa, with large concentrations found in Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, California, and New York.

At Latitude Prime, we offer Portuguese translation, Portuguese interpretation, and Portuguese localization services in numerous specialized subject areas and multiple dialects. Whether you need to translate a patent application from English into Continental Portuguese, need an African Portuguese interpreter for an immigration hearing in Seattle, or want to localize your software into Brazilian Portuguese to market your products or services in South America, Latitude Prime has the customized language solution to meet all of your Portuguese language needs.