Lusophone refers to a person or region that speaks Portuguese as a native or official language. The term comes from Lusitania, the ancient Roman province roughly corresponding to modern-day Portugal.
Lusophone countries include:
- Portugal
- Brazil
- Angola
- Mozambique
- Cape Verde
- Guinea-Bissau
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- East Timor
- Equatorial Guinea (which also has Spanish and French as official languages)
- Macau (a special administrative region of China)
It’s often used in cultural, linguistic, and postcolonial studies to describe the Portuguese-speaking world, much like Francophone for French or Anglophone for English.
