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The Portuguese language is an Iberian Romance language, of the Indo-European family. It originated in what is today Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal.

Portuguese is ranked sixth among the world's languages in number of native speakers, with over 200 million, and first in South America where around 51% of the population speak Portuguese.

It spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th century as Portugal set up a vast colonial and commercial empire spanning from Brazil in the Americas to Macau in China.

Portuguese is with Spanish the fastest growing western language and is also starting to gain popularity in Asia due to increased Chinese diplomatic and financial ties with the Portuguese speaking countries.