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jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ngl, Portuguese has always sounded like spanish with a dash of russian… never understood that…

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  • nerv@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The two languages split and diverged into the forms they currently have due to the people living in the territories.

    Portugal developed a more nasal and closed speech, where vowels are commonly swallowed or nasal, closer to celtic speech roots, while spanish maintaned its more open speech structure, with every vowel clearly marked.

    It’s easy for a portuguese to follow spanish and brazillian while the opposite is often not. The european portuguese is denser, more compact and even faster for the majority of time. By comparison, spanish and brazilian are slower paced and open.

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