Portuguese leid

Portuguese (Portuguese: português) is the Romance leid that cam frae Portugal but haes spreid athort the warld lang syne.

 Wha speaks Portuguese 

The Portuguese leid is the 3rd maist spoken wastren leid (juist efter Inglis an Spaingie) wi aboot 200 million native speakers, an a puckle mair millions aw ower the warld acause the fowk o Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique etc. that traivelt tae mony different pairts o the warld. 

Portuguese an Spaingie is baith romance leids an haes a lot o things in common. But they´re no the same. Whilk a Portuguese speaker can unnerstaund a Spaingie speaker, but maist o the times it disna happen. The same aboot Spaingie speakers unnerstaundin Portuguese speakers. A little example is:
"Abri a janela muito rápido para jantar" (Portuguese)
"Abrí la ventana muy pronto para cenar" (Spaingie)
"A opent the windae gey fast sae A can hae denner" (Scots)

The places whaur fowk speaks Portuguese as their mither tongue is Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Macao (Region o Cheenae), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé an Príncipe an in the ceeties o Goa, Damão an Diu (Indiae).

 Wirds in Portuguese that's seemilar tae Scots anes 

Portuguese an Scots haes wirds that means the same thing an leuk seemilar an aw. This is acause thir wirds cam frae the same leids (for example the Laitin, Greek or the French).

 Examples 

 Visão Veesion
 Informação Information
 Confuso Confuised
 Baptismo (Portugal) / Batismo (Brazil) Bapteesm
 Artigo Airticle
 Capital Caipital
 Total Tot
 Mapa Map 
 Problema Problem
 História Heestory

Some Scots wirds cam frae Portuguese, for example tank (tanque) an cacao (cacau).

 Examples o uisual phrases 
 Oi! Hey!
 Olá! Hello!

 Que Tal? (Portugal) / Como Vai (Brazil)? Whit like?
 Estou bem, obrigado. A'm fine, thanks.

 Fala(s) português? Dae ye speak Portuguese?
 Falo português. A speak Portuguese.
 Não falo português. A dinna speak Portuguese.
 Não falo bem português. A dinna speak much Portuguese.

 Tenho que ir, adeus! (Portugal) / Tenho que ir, tchau! (Brazil) A maun gang, bye!
 Até logo! Speak to you later!

 O que (é que) estás a fazer? (Portugal) / O que você está fazendo? (Brazil) Whit ye daein?
 Obrigado/a. Thank you

 See Forby 
 Romance leids
 Spaingie leid
 French leid
 Laitin leid
 Portugal

Category:Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Category:Leids o Andorrae
Category:Leids o Angolae
Category:Leids o Brazil
Category:Leids o Cape Verde
Category:Leids o East Timor
Category:Leids o Guinea-Bissau
Category:Leids o Macau
Category:Leids o Mozambique
Category:Leids o Portugal
Category:Leids o São Tomé an Príncipe

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