At present, several of the most widely distributed languages in the world have their own characteristics in the countries where they are spoken.
For example, french, there are many countries that use French, but almost all of them are concentrated in North and Central Africa. That's why France has more influence in African affairs than the United States.
Another example is Spanish: almost all Spanish-speaking countries are in Central and South America, so when it comes to Latin America, Spanish is the first thing that comes to mind.
There are 9 countries and regions with Portuguese as the official or lingua franca: Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Timor-Leste, Macau, China.
There are currently about 170-210 million people worldwide who speak Portuguese. Portuguese is one of the most spoken languages in the world, ranking eighth and third among the most spoken Western languages, behind English and Spanish.
In contrast, does the distribution of Portuguese appear to be chaotic? And it's all coastal. Although there are Portuguese speakers everywhere, they are not large-scale.
You know why?
This has to start from the beginning of the chaos in Portugal.
Beginning in 1497 when Vasco da Gama bypassed the Cape of Good Hope, Europe officially entered the capitalist process. At that time, the world was still in the era of cold weapons, supplemented by firearms, especially the means of transportation were still backward, which determined that the Portuguese could not penetrate deep into the interior of the continent, which led to their colonies being coastal areas, and areas with convenient supplies, without inland; without inland, it was naturally impossible to connect the various coastal strongholds, so it seemed fragmented in comparison.
It was also for this reason that the Portuguese were unable to gain an overwhelming superiority in weapons, so they could not obtain much land through hard violence. For example, portugal and China lost the war. Later, France and Britain, which rose up, have opened an absolute gap in equipment, and on the other hand, there has been great progress in transportation capacity, which provides conditions for deep penetration into the interior of Africa or the Americas.
Another major reason was that the Netherlands, Belgium, these rising stars, and later France, the strong rise of Britain, also encroached on and compressed the Portuguese colonies. The Portuguese were not very willing to take over the land, as long as they could make more money. So when Britain, France, and even Germany fought for the colonies, Portugal just made its own money.
So do you think the great powers all play with guns? In fact, the Portuguese wielded a knife all over the world.
If you like Portugal, you can immigrate to portugal through the one-step permanent residence card, and the whole processing cycle is 6 months.
At the same time, the process is also very simple: 1) sign up to pay the down payment, prepare the documents and submit it; 2) go to the Portuguese Embassy and Consulate in China to collect the work visa; 3) After logging in to Portugal, the lawyer assists in the permanent residence card procedures; 4) obtain the permanent residence card.
Processing fee: can meet a family of three.