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- also known as Lusophone World, it is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world
- official countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (China), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
- minorities: andorra, argentina, australia, canada, france, germany, japan, luxembourg, mslaysia, namibia, paraguay, south africa, spain, switzerland, united states, uruguay, venezuela
- the ancestor of modern portuguese, galician–portuguese, began developing in the north-west of the iberian peninsula, in an area encompassing present-day northern portugal and galicia, at around the 9th century
- the region of galicia in spain is not exactly classified as lusophone, but holds close ties to the lusophony. the galician language used to form a common dialect continuum with portuguese during the middle ages, denominated as galician–portuguese by historians
- efforts have been made by the xunta de galicia to promote cultural and linguistical interchange between galicia and the lusophone world
- portuguese is the first language of the overwhelming majority of brazilians, at 99.5%
- despite being a single languagem a fellow brazilian citizen cannot understand words spoken by madeirans in their dialect for example
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