Language code: pt

Technical information about ISO 639 language code pt

The table below provides technical details for the Portuguese language, designated by the pt code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

pt

Name

Official

Portuguese

Native

Português

Family
Romance
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

More info

Language varieties
European PortugueseBrazilian PortugueseAfrican Portuguese
Related languages
SpanishGalicianMirandeseAstur-Leonese
Key facts
Evolved from the medieval language Galician-PortuguesePossesses a large inventory of nasal vowels marked with a tilde (ã, õ, etc.)Has more native speakers in the Southern Hemisphere than any other languageThe 1990 Orthographic Agreement seeks to standardize spelling across dialectsThe culturally significant word “saudade” is often cited as untranslatable.
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

Portuguese belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically to the Romance subgroup. It is an official language in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, and it is one of the official languages of Equatorial Guinea, though not widely spoken there. It is written using the Latin script (Portuguese alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 230 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

210M

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Portuguese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

pt-AO Portuguese (Angola)

pt-BR Portuguese (Brazil)

pt-CH Portuguese (Switzerland)

pt-CV Portuguese (Cabo Verde)

pt-GQ Portuguese (Equatorial Guinea)

pt-GW Portuguese (Guinea-Bissau)

pt-LU Portuguese (Luxembourg)

pt-MO Portuguese (Macao)

pt-MZ Portuguese (Mozambique)

pt-PT Portuguese (Portugal)

pt-ST Portuguese (Sao Tome and Principe)

pt-TL Portuguese (East Timor)

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