
Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in Galicia and northern Portugal, derived from the Latin spoken by the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago. It spread worldwide, especially during the country’s main colonization period in the 15th and 16th centuries, as Portugal’s colonial and commercial empire grew. Today, Portuguese is one of the world's major languages, ranked 6th according to number of native speakers (between 191 and 230 million), including a...
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