What language to people in Brazil speak?
2007-03-26 12:47:07 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
According to the CIA World Factbook:
Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French
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According to what I know:
in addition to languages mentioned by the World Factbook, indiginous peoples also speak Tupi-Guaraní (a brazilian friend of mine from São Paulo has a friend who speaks tupi-guaraní)
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According to Wikipedia:
PORTUGUESE
Portuguese is the only official language of Brazil, and is spoken by nearly the entire population, being virtually the only language used in schools, newspapers, radio and TV, and used for all business and administrative purposes. Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas, giving it a national culture distinct from its Spanish-speaking neighbors.
Brazilian Portuguese has had its own development, influenced by the Amerindian and African languages. Due to it, the language is somewhat different from that spoken in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries, mainly for phonological and orthographic differences - like, for instance, the difference between American-English and British-English.
INDIGENOUS LANGAUGES
Many Amerindian minority languages are spoken daily throughout the vast national territory of Brazil. Half of these languages are spoken by indigenous peoples, mostly in Northern Brazil. The main indigenous languages are: Apalaí, Arara, Bororo, Canela, Carajá, Caribe, Guarani (also in Paraguay), Kaingang, Nadëb, Nheengatu, Terena, Tucano, Tupiniquim, and many others.
IMMIGRANT LANGUAGES
European languages
Still others are spoken by small communities of descendants of immigrants, who are for the most part bilingual, in rural areas of Southern and South Brazil. A variation of the Hunsrückisch, the Riograndenser Hunsrückisch can be heard some parts of Rio Grande do Sul. Other Brazilian German dialects spoken in Brazil are Pomeranian language, spoken in Pomerode and in Santa Maria de Jetibá and Austrian dialects in Treze Tílias. In the Serras gaúchas region, we can find Italian dialect such as the Talian, based on the Venetian Language.
Asian languages
In the city of São Paulo, Korean, Chinese and Japanese can be heard in the immigrants districts, like Liberdade
LIST OF ALL LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS OF BRAZIL
Arauan languages
-Jamamadí language
-Jarawara language
Carib languages
-Hixkaryana language
Chapacuran languages
-Oro Win language
Ge languages
-Xavante language
Indo-European languages
-Dutch
--German language
--Brazilian German
--East Pomeranian
--Riograndenser Hunsrückisch
-Italian language
--Talian
-Ladino language
-Portuguese language
--Brazilian Portuguese
-Riverense Portunhol
-Spanish language
Maxakalian languages
-Maxakalí
Muran languages
-Pirahã language
Tucanoan languages
-Tucano language
Tupi languages
-Cocoma language
-Emerillon language
-Guaraní language
-Kamayurá language
-Kanoé language
-Karitiâna language
-Língua Geral
-Munduruku language
-Nheengatu
-Old Tupi language
-Omagua language
-Potiguara language
-Sirionó language
-Tupiniquim language
Language isolates
-Ticuna language
Sign languages
-Brazilian Sign Language
-Urubú-Kaapor Sign Language
2007-03-26 13:54:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Portuguese is the main language in Brazil since the Portuguese discovered the country.
2007-03-26 12:53:09 · answer #2 · answered by Tiffany G 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brazilian Portuguese
2007-03-26 20:17:59 · answer #3 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Portuguese
2007-03-26 12:51:37 · answer #4 · answered by tabasc0kat 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
99% speak Portuguese as the first language.
Ana s: what the hell? Only because we have a different accent it doesn't mean we speak a different language. Brazilian Portuguese is Portuguese, we call Brazilian Portuguses only because of small details.
In Timor only 15% of the population can speak Portuguese, and not as the first language.
2007-03-27 14:45:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Portuguese.
2007-03-26 12:54:34 · answer #6 · answered by mafu 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, Portuguese.
2007-03-26 12:51:50 · answer #7 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mostly Portuguese.
2007-03-26 13:29:50 · answer #8 · answered by L Dawg 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We (180 million people) speak Brazilian Portuguese. A few (2.000.000) speakes German and Italian (500.000) in South
Japanese ( I don't know how much, they have some newspaper writen in Japanese, São Paulo Shinbum for example)
2007-03-26 13:43:54 · answer #9 · answered by M.M.D.C. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Portuguese is the main language in Brasil, the indigenous groups speak their own tongues...Guarani is a popular one..
2007-03-26 12:51:11 · answer #10 · answered by juanes addicion 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋