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List of countries by Portuguese-speaking population

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The distribution of Portuguese language by country.

There are the list of countries where people speak Portuguese in the continent of Africa, parts of Asia and South America.[1]The Portuguese language originated in Portugal from the language families of Italic and West Germanic in the Indo-European continent. Portuguese is one of the most influential languages across the Americas.[2]

Dialects include Brazilian Portuguese and Macanese Portuguese. The language came to Macau when colonists from Portugal arrived in the 16th century. The main dialect in Portugal has a lot of deep words.

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