The Portuguese language ranks second after Spanish as the most widely spoken Romance language. It also ranks eighth in the world in terms of number of speakers. European Portuguese, sometimes also called Continental Portuguese, is spoken by over 10 million people in Portugal.
Standard European Portuguese is a modern version of the colloquial Latin spoken by the Romans who occupied the Iberian Peninsula for more than half a millennium. It was a simplified version of Latin that avoided passive verbs forms, complicated tenses, and the entire declension system. The Portuguese language was also influenced by the consecutive invasions of Visigoths and Muslims in later years.

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