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Portugal is located on the outer edge of the Roman Empire, where Latin was spoken, and is now a small country in western Europe. During the era of European colonisation, however, the Portuguese were a great seafaring nation. In 1415, they conquered their first city outside Europe, and between 1500 and 1650, the Portuguese crown’s possessions extended far into the interior of South America, Africa and Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This history explains why Portuguese is now spoken not only in Portugal, where around 10.6 million people live, but also by over 240 million people worldwide as their mother tongue. Countries where Portuguese is widely spoken include Brazil, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Mozambique, S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, as well as Macau and East Timor in Asia. Approximately 1,000 people who speak Portuguese live in Dresden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the indigenous people retained their own languages until a ban in 1775, Portuguese became the official language of the country. Over the centuries, ever greater differences developed between the Portuguese spoken in Portugal and that spoken in Brazil, particularly in pronunciation and grammar, with some expressions from the indigenous languages also being mixed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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