Chris Kyle Dead: Author Of 'American Sniper' Shot And Killed At Gun Range. Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL who wrote the best-selling book American Sniper about his service in Iraq, was shot and killed at a gun range in Texas, multiple outlets reported Saturday night. A second man was also killed.
Portuguese /ËpÉËtjÊËÉ¡iËz/. n. the official language of Portugal, its overseas territories, and Brazil: the native language of approximately 110 million people. It belongs to the Romance group of the Indo-European family and is derived from the Galician dialect of Vulgar Latin.
History. The Portuguese language is an Indo-European language that is part of the Romance stem. As it is a Romance language, many Portuguese words have their roots in the Latin.The Romans brought this language to the Iberian Peninsula in 216BC, where it branched out over the centuries into many different languages, one of them being Old Portuguese.o by learning either the Spanish language or the Portuguese language, it is possible to understand both. While the Portuguese language has 240 million speakers, the Spanish language has around 500 million speakers, giving a combined total of around 740 million speakers.