Why is Portuguese spoken in places other than Portugal?

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Mythical Tales

LOL how old are you? There are places everywhere in the world that speak other languages. Ohio is a state not a country like Portugal. and Ohio doesn't have their own language. Have you heard of china town? Well that's in America and guess what? They speak Chinese!!! Just because I speak English doesn't mean I can only stay in America, Britain is it's own country but speaks our language and so does Australia.

P.S. Actually english originated in England sorry!

No-no

Why is English the official language in Australia, New Zealand, USA, India, South Africa, etc? Because these were some of the British colonies during the British Empire. So, Portuguese is spoken in more countries than Portugal (such as: Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Goa, Cape Verde, Guine, East Timor, Macau, Sao Tome Principe, etc), because they were part of Portuguese Empire.

midland4206

Why is english spoken in places other than England?

sky walker

Portugal had colonies in Brazil and Africa, the people in Brazil and parts of Africa speak Portugese even though Portugal no longer controls these places

h b

portuguese empire was huge at one time in history, a lot of the greatest explorers were portuguese hence the spread of the lingo across the waters

Pepsi

The same reason English is spoken in other places other than England, Scotland and Wales. It spreads out to other lands as the people of the land of origin move from country to country.

Portuguese I know spread to Brazil. I took Spanish and most of the people of South America speak Spanish; but not Brazil.

vivi

caralha...lol...
why u speal english in america? did u know that u dont even have an official language?so,you're just borrowing a language that doesnt belong to you.
putxa do carai

LJ K

Because the Portuguese were great travelers in years gone past, being the first to settle in such places as China, some parts of the Americas, and probably other places I don't know about. They kept their ways and language while at the same time learning the ways and language of the place they had sailed to, thus making Portugal one of the places most frimly represented in foreign countries by language.

SSS

Because people who were from Portugal settled in different areas and started the language in that place. brazil speaks portuguese it's slightly different than the portuguese from potugal but not to much. Same with the U.S.A why do we speak english ? Because people from England moved out here. Why does people speak spanish in Spain and Mexico and other south American places, same reasons.

Katie

Portuguese explorers tried to expand their empire during the time of imperialism. So places where they set up colonies still speak Portuguese today.

Jj JaZz

just like english is spoken in other places the america and creole is not only in haiti

mike1942f

At one time the entire New World was divided by the Pope between Portugal and Spain, Portugal getting the eastern half (Brazil mostly) and Spain the rest. Portugal also had colonies in Africa and India. Part of the reason neither country is all that strong now is the damaging effects the riches from the New World had on the home countries' economies.

papars

Simply because the Portuguese ruled a large part of the world once upon a time with colonies such as Brazil, Goa in India, Africa etc.

spudmunkey

For a logn time, Portugal had the world's largest navy, and explored much of the world.

I don't know if I'm remembering it right, but I think Christopher Columbus was from Portugal, but needed Spanish money to fund the voyage...don't remember...

Iceman

Sometimes it may be because Portugese families moved to another and kept their native language, and continued it on in their families. Or entire groups moved and kept the language amongst themselves and used it for trading with thier mother country (Portugal) like in Brazil.

this is me!

THe portuguese were one of the first explorers who set out to find a water rout to asia and ended up finding America, i think south America and so they settled down there and populated the area. You don't have to be from portugal to speak portuguese just like you don't have to be from France to be French, there are tons of french countries thanks to the french explorers.:)

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