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Portuguese, especially Brazilian Portuguese, retained this nasalization.

• asveikau 5y ago
  Portuguese has a lot of interesting stuff going on with nasal consonants. It always strikes me that they go for writing <m> in places other romance languages chose <n>. This also hints that over the history of latin languages, nasal consonants may have been kinda flexible. I used to look at those topics and think in terms of what is "more like Latin", but at one point I realized... All of them are probably accurately capturing some form of the history of Latin, and there isn't right or wrong.
• nwatson 5y ago
  For words ending in "L" as well ... "som" (sound), "Brasil" (Brazil), the last consonants are dropped. Words ending in R like "lar" (home) often get a gutteralized or dropped R.
• clw8 5y ago
  Portuguese did not retain the Latin nasal vowels, it was an independent development after the Latin nasal vowels had been lost.