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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
The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 [69] (out of a total population of 500,000,000, [70] i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included.
Portuguese (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 236 million 27 million 264 million Russian: Indo-European: Balto-Slavic: 148 million 108 million 255 million Urdu (excl. Hindi) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 70 million 168 million 238 million Indonesian (excl. other Malay) Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: 44 million 155 million 199 ...
In total, over 42% of the world's population (3.4 billion people) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language—by far the highest of any language family. There are about 445 living Indo-European languages, according to an estimate by Ethnologue , with over two-thirds (313) of them belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch.
Official language A language designated as having a unique legal status in the state: typically, the language used in a nation's legislative bodies, and often, official government business.
As of 2024, there are 57 sovereign states and 28 non-sovereign entities where English is an official language. Many administrative divisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level. Most states where English is an official language are former territories of the British Empire.
Most formal education, and nearly all national media and other forms of communication, are conducted in Indonesian. In East Timor, which was an Indonesian province from 1975 to 1999, Indonesian is recognised by the constitution as one of the two working languages (the other being English), alongside the official languages of Tetum and Portuguese.
The mixed Indian-Portuguese and Indian converts began to speak English in place of the Portuguese and some of them also anglicised their names. They are, now, part of the East Indian community of Bombay. Korlai. About 900 monolingual people currently speak Creole Portuguese in Korlai called Korlai Indo-Portuguese.