<answer>Portuguese</answer> is the official language of Portugal. <answer>Portuguese</answer> is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Northern Portugal, originating from Galician-<answer>Portuguese</answer>, which was the common language of the Galician and <answer>Portuguese</answer> people until the independence of Portugal. Particularly in the North of Portugal, there are still many similarities between the Galician culture and the <answer>Portuguese</answer> culture. Galicia is a consultative observer of the Community of <answer>Portuguese</answer> Language Countries. According to the Ethnologue of Languages, <answer>Portuguese</answer> and Spanish have a lexical similarity of 89% - educated speakers of each language can communicate easily with one another.
What is the official name of Portugal?
Portuguese