One of the world's ten most widely spoken languages, Portuguese is estimated to have around 234 million speakers. This joint honours programme offers you the opportunity to study Portuguese in its global cultural context while exploring how language works.

Portuguese and Linguistics make an excellent joint honours choice by combining the study of:

a modern language in its cultural context
the expression and creation of meaning
Linguistics courses of particular relevance to language students cover:

the speech sounds of the world's languages
variation in the languages of the world
the structure and history of world languages