porTechnical information about ISO 639 language code por
The table below provides technical details for the Portuguese language, designated by the por code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| 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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