Brazilian Portuguese

Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese is the set of varieties of Portuguese language native to Brazil. It is spoken by almost all of the 203 million inhabitants of Brazil and widely across the Brazilian diaspora, today consisting of about two million Brazilians who have emigrated to other countries.

With a population of over 203 million, Brazil is by far the world's largest Portuguese-speaking nation and the only one in the Americas where Portuguese is the official language.

Brazilian Portuguese differs notably from European Portuguese in phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar, though it remains a variety of Portuguese within the Romance language family; these differences have led some scholars to interpret it as a distinct language.