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Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. I bet they brought a couple of Japanese words to Brazilian Portuguese too.
by weinzierl 3y ago
Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan.
I bet they brought a couple of Japanese words to Brazilian Portuguese too.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoHashi for chopsticks I believe.
- DanielHB 3y agoIn Brazil when we play rock-paper-scissors we say "Jan Ken Po"
- glimshe 3y agoProbably more in Sao Paulo or areas with a large Japanese population. Never heard of this in Rio de Janeiro.
- closewith 3y agoPedra, papel e tesoura in Minas, anyway.
- swah 3y agoSame in Porto Alegre. If I heard "Jo-kem-po" I'd think someone from a younger generation that learned those works from some TV series.
- rodrigodlu 3y agoI can provide my anecdote. I prefer jokempo, and I miss meetings with other nerds in the CCMQ and going to Jambo bookstore. Late 90s. Then using this with colleagues at the local universities.
- forestwisp 3y agoI'm from Amapá and as a kid (~30 years ago) I remember hearing "jo-ken-pô" a lot. Not anymore as an adult (people just say "pedra-papel-tesoura") but if you said jo-ken-pô I'm sure people would understand what you meant.
- Vox_Leone 3y agoAnd this is the first time in my long life I see it actually written down! :)
- DanielHB 3y agoI had to look up how to spell it haha
- Morthanc 3y agoThe two that comes to mind is rock-paper-scissors, which we call "jokenpô", that is similar to the japanese 'jankenpon'. Chopsticks are "hashis" like already mentioned. Also, we call soy-sauce "shoyu", which is the japanese for soy.
- kinow 3y agoProbably caqui too (from kaki), and kabocha (same name). And other food depending on where you are in Brazil (manju, dorayaki, gobo, rakyo, azuki, wasabi, ra-men, udon, ...). Other words are used in management, like in English (kaizen, kaban). And in games & sports, besides jokenpo, there's also kendama that's sometimes used (bilboque in portuguese? That toy Chaves & Kiko always fight for :). Judogi, sensei, most judo moves are not translated as in English and we use the Japanese version in Portuguese too. Some in anime and tech, like mecha, otaku, manga, anime, mangaka. And in the Brazilin-Japanese community it's common to switch to a version of Portuguese that mixes some words that were widely used: benjo (bathroom), kusai (smelly), gohan (food, rice), kitanai (dirty), se-no (ready-set). That varies in each region and community, but it's common to switch to use these old-fashion words like benjo, which is how all my family spoke in the countrysde of Sao Paulo, but sounds redneck/wrong if you say that to a Japanese nowadays.
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- balder1991 3y agoTsunami, emoji, soja, jo-ken-pô, judô, karatê, sushi, origami. Because of Japanese immigration, there’s a lot of people in the Southeast with Japanese last names.