🇧🇷 What Language Do They Speak in Brazil?
The short answer
Brazil speaks Portuguese — not Spanish, despite what many assume. It is the official language and the mother tongue of nearly the entire population, making Brazil the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world by far.
Worth knowing
- ●Over 200 million Portuguese speakers — more than Portugal, Angola and Mozambique combined
- ●Brazilian Portuguese differs from European Portuguese in accent, vocabulary and some grammar — think American vs British English, but stronger
- ●More than 200 indigenous languages are still spoken, mostly in the Amazon region
- ●Southern Brazil has pockets of German and Italian dialects from 19th-century immigration
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