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| epictetus Groupie Canada Joined 3872 days ago 54 posts - 87 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 65 of 67 13 February 2015 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
That sounds familiar from what I've read as well. It's a bit like how Latin American Spanish and Peninsular Spanish are merely different developments from a common ancestor. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6572 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 66 of 67 14 February 2015 at 9:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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It's a very common phenomenon. Taiwanese Mandarin is more conservative than Mainland Mandarin, Fenno-Swedish is more conservative than Swedish Swedish, etc. Not sure about Portuguese, but it wouldn't surprise me if Brazilian Portuguese is the more conservative variety and the whole "let's not pronounce the vowels" thing is a recent phenomenon. I even read about a study that said that Swedes living abroad tend to be less open to "new" developments in the language and more resistant to change, having a stronger tendency to say "No, that's not correct".
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4658 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 67 of 67 20 February 2015 at 3:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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