Language comparison
Spanish vs Portuguese
Both belong to the Indo-European family; their closest common node in the Glottolog tree: West Ibero-Romance. Both are used in: Equatorial Guinea, Portugal.
Relatedness is not mutual intelligibility: languages of one branch can be unintelligible to each other, while very close ones (such as Serbian and Croatian) differ mainly in status and script. That is why we give no “similarity percentage”.
Spanish
español
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Southwestern Shifted Romance
- West Ibero-Romance
- Castilic
- Spanish
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- hola / gracias
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 512 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (17)
- Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Cuba, Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay
- Co-official (4)
- Bolivia, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Equatorial Guinea
- Without status
- widely used in 8 countries, a minority language in 7 countries
Portuguese
português
- Family and branch (Glottolog)
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Italic
- Latino-Faliscan
- Latinic
- Imperial Latin
- Romance
- Italo-Western Romance
- Western Romance
- Shifted Western Romance
- Southwestern Shifted Romance
- West Ibero-Romance
- Galician Romance
- Macro-Portuguese
- Brazil-Portugal Portuguese
- Portuguese
- Script
- Latin
- Hello / thank you
- olá / obrigado / obrigada
- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 249 million sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Official (7)
- Brazil, Angola, Portugal, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé & Príncipe
- Co-official (3)
- Timor-Leste, Macao SAR China, Equatorial Guinea
- Without status
- widely used in 1 country, a minority language in 5 countries
Where they are spoken
- Spanish 27
- Portuguese 9
- both 2
Countries where the language has a legal status or is known by at least 10% of the population (CLDR); countries where it is only a minority language are not shown.