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I have heard similar anecdotal evidence on Italian, and it's linguistic similarity to Spanish would support that. I'm a little surprised that Portuguese straye
by mathattack 12y ago
I have heard similar anecdotal evidence on Italian, and it's linguistic similarity to Spanish would support that. I'm a little surprised that Portuguese strayed so far.
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- pjmlp 12y agoPortuguese has some influence from French in terms of character set as the first King was of French origin. At the time of the country origin, Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Asturian, Arab were all spoken in the penisula, which might have contributed to such deviation. At its roots Portuguese came from Galician mixed with some Arab.