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The languages of Portugal are the languages spoken or once spoken in the territory of the country of Portugal.
[edit] Modern
Portuguese is practically universal in Portugal, but there are some specificities.
Portuguese dialects of Portugal
- Portuguese language (European Portuguese), with the following dialects:
- The Southern and Central dialects - They include the dialect of the capital, Lisbon, which however has some peculiarities of its own. Although the dialects of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira have unique characteristics, as well, they can also be grouped with the southern dialects.
- The Northern dialects - This includes the dialect of Porto, Portugal's second largest city.
- Barranquenho - In the town of Barrancos (in the border between Extremadura, Andalusia and Portugal), a dialect of Portuguese heavily influenced by Extremaduran is spoken, known as Barranquenho.
- Mirandese language - A dialect of Astur-Leonese spoken in Miranda do Douro, in northeastern Portugal.
- Portuguese Sign Language.
[edit] Historically
Other languages have been extensively spoken in the territory of modern Portugal:
[edit] Pre-Roman languages
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Pre-Roman languages of Iberia circa
200 BC.
[edit] Roman, Post-Roman and Medieval languages
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
Açoriano — Azores
