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What makes Portuguese a mix of Spanish and French and not, as TelmoMenezes says, yet another child of Latin? How do you categorize Romansh, Languedoc, Galician,
by GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
What makes Portuguese a mix of Spanish and French and not, as TelmoMenezes says, yet another child of Latin? How do you categorize Romansh, Languedoc, Galician, Sardinian, and all the others?
- tomc1985 10y agoMost of the words I've encountered in written Portuguese appeared to be either Spanish or French, or visually a combination of the two. It's another child of Latin, alongside Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, and others. I don't know the history and I don't intend that Portuguese is a child of the two, only that it is another product of the Latin echo chamber by way of its two most visually apparent influences. I've never had any purposeful encounters with any of the languages you mention, though I would certainly like to!