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Portuguese Translation Services

Traducta ranks among the top translation firms in Canada, providing Portuguese translation services to industry-leading and Fortune 500 companies across North America.

It is spoken by approximately 260,000,000 people around the world, making it the 5^th most spoken languages.

It bears very similar historical development as the Spanish language, which makes sense considering the proximity of modern day Spain and Portugal. Over time, Portuguese has developed 2 distinct dialects, which are known as European Portuguese and Brazilian (South American) Portuguese. There is also a lesser known variant of Portuguese; African Portuguese.

Traducta is specialized in Portuguese translation services and has a strong client base in the Montreal translation area, Toronto translation area, and Mississauga translation area as well as for translation in the United States and Canada.

We are trusted by business professionals and industry leading organizations to provide them with the accurate, flawless and detail-oriented translations that effectively communicate their message to their target audience.

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Portuguese Statistics

Number of words

The number of words contained in the Portuguese language is roughly around 228,500 words. Naturally, this does not include loanwords/slang but does include all variants of Portuguese including European and Brazilian and the lesser known variant; African Portuguese.

Speakers

Approximately 260,000,000 Native Speakers

Portuguese Alphabet (printed)

The modern Portuguese alphabet is an extended Latin-based alphabet consisting of 26 letters.

Uppercase or Capital letter

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Lowercase or small letter

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

Portuguese includes 4 diacritics appearing only on vowels (circumflex, acute and grave accents, tilde) in addition to the cedilla appearing on the "c" as <ç>.

*As of 2009, the diaeresis (umlaut) is no longer used in Brazilian Portuguese.

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Technical Information

Character Table

As mentioned in the section "Portuguese Alphabet", Portuguese uses diacritics (otherwise accented characters). Below you will find a reference table for your convenience.

Character	ALT Codes (Windows Decimal)	HTML Code
À à	Uppercase: ALT+0192 lowercase: ALT+0224	À à
Á á	Uppercase: ALT+0192 lowercase: ALT+0224	Á á
à ã	Uppercase: ALT+0195 lowercase: ALT+0227	à ã
Ç ç	Uppercase: ALT+0199 lowercase: ALT+0231	Ç ç
É é	Uppercase: ALT+0201 lowercase: ALT+0233	É é
Ê ê	Uppercase: ALT+0202 lowercase: ALT+0234	Ê ê
Í í	Uppercase: ALT+0205 lowercase: ALT+0237	Í í
Ó ó	Uppercase: ALT+0211 lowercase: ALT+0243	Ó ó
Ô ô	Uppercase: ALT+0212 lowercase: ALT+0244	Ô ô
Õ õ	Uppercase: ALT+0213 lowercase: ALT+0245	Õ õ
Ú ú	Uppercase: ALT+0218 lowercase: ALT+0250	Ú ú

Encoding (Web)

ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1") are the most common and usable for most Western European languages, including Portuguese.

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