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Portugal is a country. Spain is another. In Portugal you speak Portuguese and in Spain, Spanish. Portugal has been a country since 1143 and since then Portuguese has always been it's official language.

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Spanish like portuguese, the portuguese are the ones that dont like spanish

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Because Spanish is not native to Portugal. It's the same reason that Hebrew is not spoken in Korea.

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