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| Mikry Newbie South Africa Joined 5173 days ago 14 posts - 18 votes Studies: German | Message 1 of 3 10 October 2010 at 11:54am | IP Logged |
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Usually I can pick up a Romance language immediately and within a few seconds pinpoint which one it is.
However, I can not with Portuguese(particularly the European brand), something about it sounds very, very Slavic to me. I was wondering what phonical differences to other Romance languages and similarities to Slavic are their with Portuguese that cause me to muddle a Western-most Romance language with a East European group with near no similarity other than mutually being Indo-European languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5472 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 2 of 3 10 October 2010 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
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I'd chalk it up to sound. Take a look at the following article which tackles this subject:
http://www.filiuslunae.com/2009/11/language-ambiguity.html 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Domi333 Tetraglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5140 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, French, Creole (French), Portuguese Studies: Turkish, Ancient Greek | Message 3 of 3 30 October 2010 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
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Mikry, remember you're talking about European Portuguese! (To be specific the Lisboeta dialect from Lisbon)
Try looking at Northern Portuguese(Porto and near the border with Spain) and the phonology changes (not too much but it's different)! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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