Portuguese (portugues) is a kind of language of puxi Roman. Use it to countries and regions including Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Macao, China, Spain, mozambique and east timor, a total of more than 200 million people. Portuguese is the world a few of the distribution of a wide range of language and also the fifth (or six) big language.

Portugal from the 15 th century and 16 th century outward to the colonial expansion, including the America of the established Brazil, Macao in Asia and Japan's colonial rule. Portuguese has thus expanded to today's some independent countries, and become some countries the most commonly used a second foreign language. There are more than 20 kinds of Portuguese Creole dialect. It is also Andorra, Luxembourg and namibia important minority language. At the same time, a large number of Portuguese users to Paris, France, the United States of Boston, new Bedford, Newark, immigration, but also formed many Portuguese community.

Portuguese in written and Spanish is very close, but in pronunciation, it is a very big difference. Use Portuguese people can more easily understand Spanish, but using the Spanish people need to adapt after a certain to understand Portuguese.

In some cases, Spanish and Portuguese in oral use almost interaction. Portuguese users can usually read Spanish, and the user usually can also Hispanic read of Portuguese in spoken language, even if they may not be able to understand each other.

If the tourists in the Portuguese use Spanish and not in Portuguese, usually the local people can understand, but not everyone likes it. They prefer to use French or English (because the two languages in Portugal, many schools have professor 40 years old of the following person skilled in the use of a). But in Brazil people is not so, because they less opportunities to contact with foreigners, so they speak a foreign language for the foreigners will feel very fresh.

Portuguese in the following countries is the first language: Angola, Brazil, Portugal and SAO tome and principe, at the same time it is also mozambique the most widely used languages.

Portuguese and Spanish galician area is also, equatorial guinea, east timor and one of the official languages of the macau. In Andorra, Luxembourg and namibia, Portuguese is widely used, but not the official language. Creole Portuguese cape Verde and guinea pesos is people in region native language.

Use the Portuguese mainly distributed in Africa, South America, Asia and Europe. But in North America (mainly the United States), Canada, Bermuda, and carry the melon and barbuda also has about 2 million people use. In Oceania, Portuguese have less than 50000 people use.