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