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200 million Portuguese native speakers

Portuguese tends to attract much less attention than its big Ibero-Romance sister, Spanish. From a European perspective, we tend to think about Portugal with its approximately 10 million inhabitants only as a holiday destination. This is underestimating this former world power and its language. A nation of seafarers, Portugal in its days as a world power distributed its language across the globe. Today, over quarter of a billion people speak Portuguese as their native or second language; it is the mother tongue of over 200 million people. This ranks Portuguese in sixth place of the languages with the largest number of native speakers. It is an official language of ten countries, including Brazil – not only the largest and most populated country in South America, but also one of the ten largest economies in the world.