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Portuguese (Português) belongs to the West Iberian branch of the Romance languages, of Indo-European family of languages. Like all other Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian and Catalan) Portuguese evolved from Vulgar Latin that had been introduced to the Iberian Peninsula by Romans. Contemporary Portuguese grew from the Galician-Portuguese language that was spoken in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia.
In the 15th and 16th centuries as Portugal established a colonial empire, the...