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Type Country
Usage Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Indonesian, Malay
Scripts Португал(Serbian)
Pronounced Pron. /puɾ.tu.ˈɡaɫ/(European Portuguese) /poɾ.tu.ˈɡaw/(Brazilian Portuguese) /ˈpɔɹ.t͡ʃə.ɡəl/(American English) /ˈpɔː.t͡ʃə.ɡəl/(British English) /pɔʁ.ty.ɡal/(French) /poɾ.tu.ˈɡal/(Spanish) /ˈpɔɐ̯.tu.ɡal/(German) /pɔr.ˈtu.ɡal/(Indonesian)
Meaning & History
From Portugale, which was derived from Portus Cale, the old name of the city of Porto. The name of the city was later applied to the entire country.