Language code: pt

Technical information about ISO 639 language code pt

Technical information about pt language code (Portuguese) is available below.

ISO code

pt

Language

Official

Portuguese

Native

Português

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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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