Speakers per Country
A widely accepted "best practice" in our industry is for Portuguese translators and interpreters to work only into their native language: Portuguese. Some companies often assume that if you can translate from a language, you can also translate into it. Bolstered by unwarranted confidence, some translators make the same assumption without ever putting it to the test.
The Translation Company firmly believes that a best practice is to have a qualified native speaker edit our work. Therefore, we have Portuguese translators in our team for different target-countries:
We believe that a Portuguese translator should work in a single language pair, and most of our translators should work in a few specialties. Camila Saunier, market manager and also a career Portuguese translator, explains that “specialty brings competence and confidence” – referring to her legal translation and language interpretation jobs, and the continuous demand from a few selected clients for her services.
Portuguese language territories |
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Country/Region |
Speakers |
Total |
Population |
Africa |
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Angola |
60% |
80% |
11,190,786 |
Cape Verde |
ND |
ND |
418,224 |
Mozambique |
6.5% |
40% |
19,406,703 |
So Tomé and Príncipe |
50% |
95% |
187,410 |
Equatorial Guinea |
- |
- |
1,014,999 |
not official: |
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Namibia |
20% |
20% |
2,030,692 |
South Africa |
2% |
2% |
44,344,136 |
Asia |
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East Timor |
ND |
20% |
1,040,880 |
Macao S.A.R., China |
5% |
7% |
449,198 |
not official: |
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Daman, India |
10% |
10% |
113,949 |
Goa, India[1] |
4% |
4% |
1,400,000 |
Europe |
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Portugal |
100% |
100% |
10,566,212 |
not official: |
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Luxembourg³ |
14% |
14% |
468,571 |
Andorra |
4-13% |
4-13% |
70,549 |
Spain |
2% |
4% |
44,187,127 |
France |
2% |
2% |
60,656,178 |
Germany |
2% |
2% |
82,689,000 |
Switzerland |
2% |
2% |
7,489,370 |
The Americas |
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Brazil |
99% |
100% |
186,112,794 |
not official: |
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Paraguay |
7% |
7% |
6,347,884 |
Bermuda |
4% |
4% |
65,365 |
Venezuela |
1-2% |
1-2% |
25,375,281 |
Canada |
1-2% |
1-2% |
32,805,041 |