Portuguese

Portuguese Translations

Across Translation provides high quality English to Portuguese Translations and Portuguese to English Translations for various industries and purposes. Other Portuguese language combinations are available upon request.

Each Portuguese translation is unique. The key to providing the best quality translation is selecting the right translators to your project.
All our Portuguese translations are performed by fully qualified, native speakers. Each with a minimum of 5 years experience and expertise in the specific subject matter.
All our Portuguese translations are proofread and where required independently edited.
Across Translation’s Portuguese typesetting services provides the final touch for a complete, ready to publish translation.
All our Portuguese translations undergo the ‘Across Check’ 4 stage quality assurance process to ensure our clients receive the highest quality translation every time.

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Portuguese is derived from Latin and originated in what is now northern Portugal. It’s spread around the world during the Portuguese colonisations of different areas. Portuguese is one of the fastest growing European languages thanks to its influence and ever growing popularity in African and South American countries expecting to rise to 335 million speakers by 2050.

Portuguese consists of two main groups of dialects, those of the Old World or Europe and those of Brazil commonly referred to European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese. These two types of Portuguese can vary considerably culturally and in terms of style, particularly with marketing materials.

Facts and Figures about Portugal and Brazil and the Portuguese language

Ranking by native speakers: 6th
Number of speakers worldwide: 213 million (203 Native speakers/ 10 million second language)
Officially used in: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macau (People's Republic of China), Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé e Príncipe
Presence on the internet: ranked 6th in the world with 4.4% of all internet users
Translation Tips: The first step is to identifying whether European Portuguese or Brazilian Portuguese is required. Then expect a text expansion of around 15% when translating from English into Portuguese and a compression of the same amount when translating from Portuguese into English.

Country

Literacy Rate: Brazil-91% Portugal- 93.3%
Major industries: Portugal- Manufacturing, Energy, Services. Brazil- Mining, Transport, Manufacturing.
Major Trading partners: Portugal- Germany, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Brazil- United States of America, Argentina and China