| | Kids Be Safe : Article 'Portuguese language' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Template:Language Portuguese (portuguýs) is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor. |
 | | The language was spread worldwide in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as Portugal created the first and the longest lived modern-world colonial and commercial empire (1415–1975), spanning from Brazil in the Americas to Macau in China. |
 | | The Ethnologue lists a total of fourteen (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=1270), but the number varies between seven and seventeen depending on how strict the intelligibility criterion is. The distinction between a single language and a language family has major political overtones, and the amount of emotion put into this issue arises from political implications. |
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