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Language Comparison: Makassar vs Portuguese Portugal
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Aspect | Makassar | Portuguese Portugal |
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Family | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | Indo-European, Romance |
Speakers | Approximately 2.1 million | Approximately 10 million in Portugal, over 230 million worldwide (including other Portuguese varieties) |
Features | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. | A Romance language with complex verb conjugations, nasal vowels, and distinct pronunciation compared to Brazilian Portuguese; features a more formal tone and contraction-heavy grammar |
Countries | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) | Portugal (official), and Portuguese-speaking communities worldwide |
Writing System | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) | Latin script |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships | No, relies on prepositions and word order |
Derived From | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | Latin, with Celtic, Germanic, Arabic, and other influences |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch | From Arabic, French, English, and other Romance languages |
Dialects | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar | Includes several regional variations such as Northern Portuguese, Central Portuguese, Southern Portuguese, and Madeiran; also influenced by historical colonial dialects |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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