🇵🇹 What Language Do They Speak in Portugal?
The short answer
Portugal speaks Portuguese, the country that gave the language its name. European Portuguese has a more closed, clipped sound than the Brazilian variety, but the two are fully mutually intelligible in writing and largely so in speech.
Worth knowing
- ●Mirandese, spoken by a few thousand people in the northeast, is co-official — Portugal's only other recognised language
- ●Portuguese is the official language of nine countries across four continents
- ●European Portuguese often drops unstressed vowels, which is why it can sound faster than Brazilian Portuguese
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