The story of Portuguese and Spanish, as with all Romance languages, actually begins in Italy. And eventually even receiving land as payment for loyalty.
As had been the case under the Visigoth kings, Mozarabic was spoken by a large majority of the population, while Arabic was only used by the upper echelons of society.”Today we understand that the conquering of the northern half of Iberia never really happened, the muslim did regular raids in the north and had the control of some walled cities in a central Iberia belt for brief periods (no more than decades). There are indeed well over 1,500 Celtic/Germanic words in Portuguese as well, and the Mozarabic influence is small, around 400-800 Arabic words vs 8,000 Arabic words in Spanish. Portuguese is the country's official language, while English is the second most common language.
The Portuguese have adopted the use of other foreign languages, mainly English, French, and Spanish.
They weren’t arabs as the name may imply (in fact there were no arabs in the peninsula, at least in statistically meaningfull numbers becausee the invaders were moorish and the arab elite only arrived some 40 years later fleeding from Damascus, they were a ruling ultraminority). I find Spanish harder and more similar to French.Paulo Goncalves it’s interesting that you find Portuguese more similar to French because I am fluent in Spanish (in the process of learning Portuguese) and was thinking that about Portuguese and French. As had been the case under the Visigoth kings, Mozarabic was spoken by a large majority of the population, while Arabic was only used by the upper echelons of society.Whence Portuguese and Spanish, then? My son is of Portuguese descent, I am glad I found in your article a source of knowledge that I will be sharing with him. The dissimilation in the northern and central dialects occurred with the During the colonization of the Americas, most settlers came from the south of Spain; that is the cause, according to almost all scholars, for nearly all Spanish-speakers in the One unusual feature of Spanish etymology is the way in which the Documents from as early as the 15th century show occasional evidence of sporadic confusion between the phoneme A related trait that has also been documented sporadically for several hundred years is "History of Spanish" redirects here.
Educated speakers of both can communicate easily with one another, each speaking in his own language.Without question, there is not a closer language to Spanish than Portuguese, and vice versa.
At that time it was called Proto-Portuguese, in the reagion of Galicia, which is today part of Spain.
Language. The Cid, Rodrigo Diaz, the famous «spanish» hero of the so-called Reconquest [which didn’t exist either, but that’s another story], was insulted by the muslim with the name «galician dog».As I stated before, this supposed Kingdom of Asturias doesn’t appear in period sources. Mozarabic was a romance language that obviously could have some arabic influence and to better understand that influence we need to understand who were the mozarabs. What I have seen is that Portuguese speakers have a much easier time understanding Spanish speakers than the other way around.That’s because you aren’t Spanish or Portuguese, if you were you would understand why they are very intelligible and actually we can speak in our own languages and still understand each others very well. Or being far north, could even have been less touched by Muslim domination. I am a composer, musician, singer-songwriter, writer and from my travels in Spain, Portugal, France and through my work with European musicians also, I became very interested in the history, genesis and current obvious differences in spoken Portuguese and Spanish.Very interesting! It is a good article, but it is a pitty you did not mention Dante’s “De vulgari eloquentia” when writing about vulgar latin, galician-portuguese (galaico-português), nor the fact that modern standard continental portuguese has 7 voewl sounds (8, if you wish to include the azorean dialect) and spanish has only 5. The Muslims, who wrote way more than the Christians, didn’t acknowledge its existance — yet everywhere you can see the traces of the Kingdom of Galicia: its arms are at Segar’s Roll of Arms (XIII century) along the major european kings of the time. Which language came first- Spanish or Portuguese?
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