The Languages spoken in Brazil

The main language spoken in Brazil is Portuguese. English is a close second language and many Brazilians have knowledge of it though not enough to speak fluently. In recent times, due to a trade agreeement among Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, Spanish is also gaining in prominence.

Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal from the Latin spoken by romanized Celts about 2000 years ago. It is one of the world's major languages, ranked sixth according to number of native speakers (over 200 million). It is the language with the largest number of speakers in South America (188 million, over 51% of the continent's population), and also a major lingua franca in Africa.