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Language code: por

Technical information about ISO 639 language code por

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The table below provides technical details for the Portuguese language, designated by the por code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

por

Name

Official

Portuguese

Native

Português

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
European PortugueseBrazilian PortugueseAfrican PortugueseAsian Portuguese
Related languages
GalicianSpanishCatalanOccitanItalian
Key facts
Descends from the Vulgar Latin once spoken in Roman LusitaniaContains a rich set of nasal vowels, more than any other major Romance languageFeatures mesoclisis, a rare placement of clitic pronouns inside future or conditional verb formsPortuguese vocabulary includes many Arabic loanwords introduced during Moorish ruleThe longest word recorded in standard dictionaries is "anticonstitucionalissimamente" with 29 letters
Sample phrase

Olá, como você está?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, Windows 1252, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Portuguese language, identified by the code por, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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