Hall, Jr., 1989) is excellent between Galicians and northern Portuguese.
In 1997, a comprehensive academic study ranked the Brazilian variety of Portuguese as one of the 10 most influential languages in the world. == History == When the Romans arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 216 BC, they brought the Latin language with them, from which all Romance languages are descended.
Portuguese is also termed "the language of Camões", after Luís Vaz de Camões, one of the greatest literary figures in the Portuguese language and author of the Portuguese epic poem The Lusiads. In March 2006, the Museum of the Portuguese Language, an interactive museum about the Portuguese language, was founded in São Paulo, Brazil, the city with the greatest number of Portuguese language speakers in the world.
Just over 50% (and rapidly increasing) of the population of Mozambique are native speakers of Portuguese, and 70% are fluent, according to the 2007 census.
and the United States (0.35% of the population or 1,228,126 speakers according to the 2007 American Community Survey). In some parts of former Portuguese India, namely Goa and Daman and Diu, the language is still spoken by about 10,000 people.
In 2015 the museum was partially destroyed in a fire, but restored and reopened in 2020. == Geographic distribution == Portuguese is the native language of the vast majority of the people in Portugal, Brazil and São Tomé and Príncipe (95%).
The use of the Portuguese language in this country is limited. The combined population of the entire Lusophone area was estimated at 279 million in July 2017.
In 2017, a project was launched to introduce Portuguese as a school subject in Zimbabwe.
In 2015 the museum was partially destroyed in a fire, but restored and reopened in 2020. == Geographic distribution == Portuguese is the native language of the vast majority of the people in Portugal, Brazil and São Tomé and Príncipe (95%).
Also, according to Portugal's Minister of Foreign Affairs, the language will be part of the school curriculum of a total of 32 countries by 2020.
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