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Many Portuguese-Brazilians identified as Brazilian, perhaps encouraged by the dominance of Portuguese culture there. In 1872, 3.7 million Whites lived in Brazil (the vast majority of Portuguese ancestry), along with 4.1 million mixed-race people (mostly of Portuguese-African-Amerindian ancestry) and 1.9 million Blacks. Thus 80% of Brazilians ...
There are more than 1.5 million Portuguese Americans and about 300,000 Brazilian Americans living in the United States, [32] [33] and Portuguese is spoken by over 730,000 people at home in the country. [34]
Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, [6] and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau.
Portuguese control of South America in 1754. (Green) Brazil is the largest country in which Portuguese is spoken in all of the Americas, with a population of approximately 220 million people, almost all of whom are native speakers of Portuguese. The size of this population renders Portuguese an important regional and world language.
Angolan Portuguese Portugal: Europe 10,318,000 [20] European Portuguese Equatorial Guinea: Africa 1,795,834 [21] Brazilian Portuguese East Timor: Asia 1,245,000 [22] East Timorese Portuguese Guinea-Bissau: Africa 1,110,000 [23] Guinean Portuguese Macau: Asia 641,000 [24] Macanese Portuguese Cape Verde: Africa 499,000 [25] Cape Verdean Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡejz bɾaziˈlejɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil. [4] [5] It is spoken by almost all of the 203 million inhabitants of Brazil and spoken widely across the Brazilian diaspora, today consisting of about two million Brazilians who have emigrated to other countries.
For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [4] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.
Due to this poverty, many of the criminals in Rio de Janeiro were Portuguese immigrants: of the men convicted of crimes there during the four years from 1915 to 1918, 32% were Portuguese (although Portuguese immigrants made up only 15% of the male population of Rio de Janeiro in 1920): 47% of counterfeiters, 43% of arsonists and 23% of ...