Langenesis

Indo-European family

Portuguese

1400 CE – today Living

Portuguese (1400 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → … → Vulgar Latin → Galician-Portuguese → Portuguese.

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Speakers
264M (264,000,000)
ISO 639-3
por
Glottocode
port1283

Covers Middle Portuguese (15th–17th c.) and Modern Portuguese; the shared Galician-Portuguese stage is a separate node. European and Brazilian variants are not tracked as separate nodes.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
  3. Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
  4. Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
  5. Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
  6. Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE
  7. Galician-Portuguesec. 900 CE – 1400 CE
  8. Portuguese1400 CE – today

Descendants 1

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Galician-Portuguese.

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