World language

Português (Portuguese)

Spoken across Brazil and five African nations

Portuguese is a Romance language with around 260 million speakers, and it's distinctly African as well as European and South American: it's the official language of Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe, alongside Portugal and, by far its largest speaker base, Brazil.

FamilyIndo-European, Romance branch
Spoken inPortugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe
SpeakersAround 260 million speakers worldwide

Writing system

What counts as correct

Portuguese combines accent marks (á, é, ê, ç) with nasalization marks — the tilde over a and o (ã, õ) — that indicate a nasal vowel sound and often distinguish singular from plural or one word from another entirely.

Why it matters

Precision, not approximation

Nasalization marks in Portuguese carry real grammatical weight, not just pronunciation. Itumo checks that accents and nasal marks are correct and in place, whether Portuguese is where a translation starts or where it ends.

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