Very often don’t knowing Spanish or Portugal language enough well then one can confuse them because they sound almost equally. Another example is Russian and Ukrainian languages that are also very similar and one could hardly to identify each of them correctly as well. Regarding Portuguese and Spanish, they are among the most widely spoken languages in the world today and despite the two ones are very closely related, they have very significant differences.
Spanish Rosana
On the one hand with this similar sounding and great number of words spelled the same, very often it’s pronounced differently and on the other hand there are other words, which are pronounced almost the same but spelled differently.
Beautiful Portuguese
Besides that, while the Spanish language has kept most of the Mozarabic vocabulary of Arabic origin, the Portuguese language do not have this Mozarabic substratum but replaced it with with Latin roots. In Portuguese language, one can see the influence of French while in Spanish language, there is a great influence of the autonomous and Mediterranean-oriented.
The two languages are very much different in grammar too. They have difference in their tenses, prepositions, cardinal numbers, reflexive pronouns and a lot more.
Portuguese is the official and first language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe. It is also one of the official languages of East Timor (with Tetum), Macau (with Chinese) and the gabonese-equatoguinean city of Cocobeach (with French and Spanish).
The list of countries and territories with Spanish as an official language includes Argentina Bolivia Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba
Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Guatemala
Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Spain Uruguay Venezuela
Other countries where Spanish is important are Andorra Belize and Philippines.
