As Portugal is launched out of Euro 2008 today, the futures of their main two protagonists slid even more sharply into view. The 3-2 defeat by Germany marked the end of Brazilian coach, Luiz Felipe Scolari's five-year tenure. Portuguese is the third most widely spoken European Language in the world and is the mother tongue to about 200 million people. Countries in which Portuguese is the official language: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe in Africa, Brazil and East Timor in Asia. There are also Portuguese-speaking communities in other countries: large communities of recent immigrants exist in Europe (France, Luxembourg and Germany), in the Americas - United States, Canada and Venezuela, in Africa, South Africa and Australia, there are also small groups of people in the erstwhile Asian colonies. In Portugal a considerable number of citizens can communicate easily in English, French and Spanish.
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