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Brazilians

Бразильцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
92,083,286
Brazil, census 2022 (race / colour category)
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Brazil: 92,083,286 people in the 2022 census.

Main language: Portuguese. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Brazil2022 · race / colour category · «Parda» · [1]
92,083,286

Languages and their lineage

Portuguese

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Italicital1284
  4. Latino-Faliscanlati1262
  5. Latiniclati1263
  6. Imperial Latinimpe1234
  7. Romanceroma1334
  8. Italo-Western Romanceital1285
  9. Western Romancewest2813
  10. Shifted Western Romanceshif1234
  11. Southwestern Shifted Romancesout3183
  12. West Ibero-Romancewest2838
  13. Galician Romancegali1263
  14. Macro-Portuguesemacr1272
  15. Brazil-Portugal Portuguesebraz1247
  16. Portugueseport1283

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

PakistanisRussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansUkrainiansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsScotsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansLithuanians

Sources

  1. IBGE. Censo Demográfico 2022: Identificação étnico-racial da população, por sexo e idade. Resultados do universo. https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/media/com_mediaibge/arquivos/13ee0337cffc1de37bf0cd4…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)