Brazil

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Official Name
Federative Republic of Brazil, República Federativa do Brasil
Population

193,947,000 (2012 UNDESA)

Principal Languages
Brazilian Sign Language, Portuguese
Literacy Rate
90% (2009 UNESCO)
Immigrant Languages
Dutch, Italian (50,000), Japanese (380,000), Korean (37,000), North Levantine Spoken Arabic, Spanish (460,000), Standard German (1,500,000), Turoyo
Deaf Population
5,750,800
General References
Campbell 1997; Crevels 2007; Derbyshire and Pullum 1991, 1998; Dixon and Aikhenvald 1999; Hopper 1967; Moore 2006; Ribeiro 1957; Rodrigues 1986, 1999
Language Counts
The number of individual languages listed for Brazil is 238. Of these, 216 are living and 22 are extinct. Of the living languages, 5 are institutional, 29 are developing, 26 are vigorous, 57 are in trouble, and 99 are dying.
Products
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