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> Even some Spanish dialects like Galego have the same r You are opening a can of worms here considering that Galego is officialy a language, not a dialect, an
by darkwater 5y ago
> Even some Spanish dialects like Galego have the same r
You are opening a can of worms here considering that Galego is officialy a language, not a dialect, and it's basically very very similar to Portoguese, up to a point in which a galician colleague of mine, when we were at a conference in the USA would talk in Galego with a couple of Brazilian guys and they talked to him in Brazilian Portoguese and they went along just fine. Modern galego and portugues stem from the same root[1]
[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_gallego#Historia https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_gallego#Historia
- diego_moita 5y ago> You are opening a can of worms here considering that Galego is officialy a language, not a dialect, and it's basically very very similar to Portoguese, True, you are right. I stand corrected. The difference between a language and a dialect is often just politics.
- darkwater 5y ago> The difference between a language and a dialect is often just politics. Indeed! It can be defined by loosing or winning a war. If you win, it's a language; if you loose, it's a dialect.
- mlinhares 5y agoThat's pretty much why it's called "Portuguese", they pushed the moors before other parts of Hispania did it and decided to get their own kingdom started instead of waiting for all the other nobles to finish the work. If it wasn't for that Portugal might not even exist as a country in itself.
- mprovost 5y ago"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...