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The Sweet Language
Spoken by about 240 million people around the world, Portuguese is the seventh, sometimes sixth, most widely-spoken language in the world. There are about 210 to 215 million native Portuguese speakers. It belongs to a language group called “Romance” that originated from Latin.
Many writers in the past have given Portuguese a reputation of being “beautiful”. Miguel de Cervantes called it the “sweet and gracious language”, while Lope de Vega called it “sweet”. Olavo Bilac referred to it as “the last flower of Latium, rustic and beautiful”.
The official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe is Portuguese.
Around the world various countries and regions speak Portuguese. As a result, Portuguese has broken down into several dialects. Used in learning, are European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese
What a Portuguese Translator Needs to Know
Portuguese dialects generally differ in accent and vocabulary. However, there may also be grammatical differences between Brazilian dialects and other dialects.
Interpreters and translators also need to know the phonology of the language. The Portuguese phonology is very similar to that of French, Catalan, Occitan, Franco-Provençal, Sardinian and Southern Italian dialects.
The vowels generally follow the the seven vowels of vulgar Latin. There are a maximum of 9 oral vowels (Brazilian Portuguese has 8), 5 nasal vowels, 10 oral dipthongs and 5 nasal dipthongs.
Portuguese grammar has preserved many verbal inflections from Classical Latin, in fact, more than any other Romance language. The Portuguese translator must note that the verb is also the most definitive aspect of Portuguese grammar.
When making official document translations in Portuguese, one must also know the writing system. In the Portuguese writing system there are used 26 letters of the Latin script. There are also several characters with diacritics that are used, although they are not counted as separate letters.
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