Portuguese is the official language of 9 countries belonging to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries - CPLP. It is spoken by about 260 million people in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, East Timor and in the territory of Macao. As a pluricentric language, it has two different norms: the European norm, called European Portuguese (PE), and the Brazilian norm, called Brazilian Portuguese (PB), taught in Italian universities. This article aims to describe Portuguese as a pluricentric language through its diffusion and use.
