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European Portuguese (Português Europeu)
Native to: Portugal
Native speakers: 40 million (2012)
Language family: Indo-European (Romance)

also known as Portuguese of Portugal (Portuguese: português de Portugal), Peninsular Portuguese (Portuguese: português peninsular), Iberian Portuguese (Portuguese: português ibérico) refers to the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal. The word “European” was chosen to avoid the clash of “Portuguese Portuguese” (“português português”) as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese.

Portuguese is a pluricentric language, i.e., it is the same language with several interacting codified standard forms in many countries. Portuguese is a Latin based language, with Celtic, Germanic, Greek and Arabic influence. It was spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before as Galician-Portuguese. With the formation of Portugal as a country in the 12th century, the language evolved into Portuguese. In the Spanish province of Galicia, Northern border of Portugal, the native language is Galician. Both Portuguese and Galician are very similar and natives can understand each other as they share the same recent common ancestor. Portuguese and Spanish are different languages, although they share 89% of their lexicon.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Portuguese
https://www.practiceportuguese.com/
https://www.learn-portuguese-with-rafa.com/learn-european-portuguese.html
https://juliedawnfox.com/learn-european-portuguese-free/
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/portuguese/learn-european-portuguese/
http://bible.is/

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