The Strength of the Portuguese Language in the World
03 September 2025 - 16:50 | 17:15
Portugal
Author and Lecturer at NOVA FCSH and Researcher in Languages, Literatures and Cultures
How to Project Portuguese literature in a world dominated by foreign bestsellers? What strategies are being taken in Europe to counter the hegemony of English reading, and how can we apply them in Portugal?
With approximately 300 million speakers, Portuguese is the 5th most spoken language in the world, the 3rd in the Western Hemisphere, and the most spoken in the Southern Hemisphere.