October 23, 2006

Portuguese Language Stats

Here are some statistics--found in today's edition of the New York Times--that I bet you didn't know:

At Long Last, a Neglected Language Is Put on a Pedestal - New York Times

More people speak Portuguese as their native language than French, German, Italian or Japanese. So it can rankle the 230 million Portuguese speakers that the rest of the world often views their mother tongue as a minor language and that their novelists, poets and songwriters tend to be overlooked.

The article is about the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo. It is very informative. The museum is definitely on my "places to visit" list.

Posted by Andrew on October 23, 2006 5:52 AM.