Station
identification: "Aqui Lisboa, RDP Internacional" ,
pronounced A'kee... Portuguese is spoken in Portugal and Brazil.
Portuguese has a very distinctive sound; it uses a different vowel system from Spanish and has many nasialised sounds (including nasial vowels which are not used in Spanish)
Characteristic consonants include sh (as in English sh op) and ge (as in English garage).
Brazillian dialects have a monotonous sing-song intonation whereas in Portugal stressed vowels are clearly pronounced with the unstressed being slurred and hardly heard. Brazillian sounds clearer and a final sto words, whereas Lisbon Portuguese has sh and ge.
Station
identification: "Aqui Lisboa, RDP Internacional" ,
pronounced A'kee...
| Name | Where spoken | Language Family | How many (000s) |
| Portuguese | Portugal, Brazil, parts of Afriva | Indo-European (Romance) | 120-135m |
Table source: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, David Ctystal, Cambridge University Press
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