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 | |||
Country/Region | Speakers | Total | Population |
Africa | |||
Angola | 60% | 80% | 11,190,786 |
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: | |||
Namibia | 20% | 20% | 2,030,692 |
South Africa | 2% | 2% | 44,344,136 |
Asia | |||
ND | 20% | 1,040,880 | |
Macao S.A.R., China | 5% | 7% | 449,198 |
not official: | |||
Daman, India | 10% | 10% | 113,949 |
Goa, India[1] | 4% | 4% | 1,400,000 |
Europe | |||
Portugal | 100% | 100% | 10,566,212 |
not official: | |||
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 | |||
Brazil | 99% | 100% | 186,112,794 |
not official: | |||
Paraguay | 7% | 7% | 6,347,884 |
Bermuda | 4% | 4% | 65,365 |
1-2% | 1-2% | 25,375,281 | |
Canada | 1-2% | 1-2% | 32,805,041 |