Whats the mutual intelligibility like with portuguese. Galician is spoken by some four million people as a home language, mostly in the autonomous community of galicia. Indeed, from what i know, grammar is the smallest stumbling block to mutual intelligibility. Amaro m galician, portuguese, spanish possibly from the germanic name adelmar, maybe influenced by latin amarus bitter. Mainly between galicians and northern portuguese speakers in the portuguese provinces of altominho and trasosmontes.
Having a large body of recognizable vocabulary is a necessary condition for mutual intelligibility, but it is nowhere near sufficient. Although they have a millennium or so of their own literary, lexical, grammatical, phonological and orthographic traditions behind them, the two languages are. For example if we take the example of the galicianportuguese verb andar to walk compare it the modern spanish equivalent andar. It is the common ancestor of modern portuguese, galician, eonavian and fala varieties, all of which maintain a very high level of mutual intelligibility. Characterised by its wild coastlines, green hilly landscapes and maritime heritage, its a unique area of the country, even sharing some of its roots with the celts. In the present study we tested the level of mutual intelligibility between three west slavic czech, slovak and polish and three south slavic languages croatian, slovene and bulgarian. Portuguese has varying degrees of mutual intelligibility with spanish, galician, french and italian. If you speak portuguese and spanish youll feel like you can understand almost everything they say, as itll sound like a mixture of both languages.
One thought on the mutual intelligibility of spanish dialects jhael 18 may, 2014 at 11. At the time galicianportuguese was the language used in nearly all of iberia for lyric poetry. Pdf mutual intelligibility among the romance languages robert. Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in. Mutual intelligibility among the slavic languages beyond.
Dialectology treats such topics as divergence of two local dialects from a common ancestor and synchronic. Theres also a computer program called galingua for teaching galician whose site had gone down but which iguanamon had saved and kindly uploaded for us at htlal. Although they have a millennium or so of their own literary, lexical, grammatical, phonological and orthographic traditions behind them, the two languages are often held to be understandable to speakers of the other one. So at least at the highest level, i think there always. Reintegrationists support the use of spelling rules similar to the ones used in portuguesespeaking countries.
Galician language wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Differences between portuguese and galician youtube. The speakers featured herein have not explicitly agreed to distribute this video for reuse. Portuguese has varying degrees of mutual intelligibility with spanish. Galician is mainly spoken in galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern spain, where it is coofficial with castilian, galician and portuguese have a relative mutual intelligibility estimated at 85. Galician language the reader wiki, reader view of wikipedia. If you speak portuguese, youll find that youll understand galician better than spanish speakers. On the mutual intelligibility of spanish and portuguese a.
Galician names are used in galicia in northwestern spain. In the middle ages, the galicianportuguese lyric, also known as trovadorismo in portugal and trobadorismo in galicia, was a lyric poetic school or movement. It is also the secondmost spoken language, after spanish, in south america and all of. The relationship is reportedly asymmetric, spanish being more easily. Even though they are closely related, not only do degrees of similarity between any two romance languages vary from one.
On the mutual intelligibility of spanish and portuguese are spanish and portuguese mutually intelligible. Based on mutual intelligibility, dalby counts a dozen languages. The mutual intelligibility of spanish dialects spanish. How mutually intelligible is galician to spanish and.
In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which. It has a very high degree of mutual intelligibility with galician spoken in northwestern spain, which is a language thats sort of a cross between portuguese and spanish. Ive read through some of the threads dealing with the topic of mutual intelligibility among romance languages, in particular portuguesespanish vs. How mutually intelligible is galician to spanish and portuguese. Mutual intelligibility is a continuum that is, a gradient concept, marked by degrees of intelligibility, not by sharp divisions. I speak spanish its not my native language but i lived in spain for half my adult life and my listening and reading comprehension in spanish isnt far off nativespeaker level. Mutual intelligibility between west and south slavic. These mutually intelligible languages will make you do a double. The two languages are more or less mutually intelligible, but galician. On the plus side thanks for clarifying the dialect differences a bit for our non spanish speaking friends. Portuguese language project gutenberg selfpublishing. Mutual intelligibility of languages in the slavic family. The term galicianportuguese also designates the subdivision of the modern west iberian group of romance languages.
Im just commenting here because of my fondness for procrastinating. Galician is spoken in the autonomous region of galicia in the northwest corner of spain. Mutual intelligibility estimated at 85% by robert a. The results show that in most cases, a division between west and south slavic languages does exist and that west. Descargar assimil portugues pdf if you live abroad then check these resources. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features. Asymmetry in mutual intelligibility brazilianportuguese listeners understand argentinianspanish better than vice versa. Istroromanian high, spanish and portuguese partially. This classification criterion is however problematic, due to the much higher levels of mutual intelligibility between italic and iberian languages than between either of these with. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
The reintegrationist view considers galician to be a variant of the galicianportuguese linguistic diasystem, as evidenced by the common origin, common grammar, syntax, vocabulary, morphology and overall mutual intelligibility. Mutual intelligibility wikipedia republished wiki 2. Germanic language mutual intelligibility best, country. This was the name of a legendary saint who was said to have sailed across the atlantic to a paradise. But again, this is a separate discussion from mutual intelligibility. However, portuguese and galician are mutually intelligible, and spanish is. Mutual intelligibility between closely related languages in europe pdf. Mutual intelligibility of dutch and german cognates by humans and computers vincent j. On the mutual intelligibility of spanish and portuguese.
How close were the portuguese and spanish languages in the 1600s. Mutual intelligibility of dutch and german cognates. Differential mutual intelligibility between portuguese and spanish beyond highbrow robert lindsay cortes 23 october, 20 at 5. World heritage encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the. Hes the site administrator and i am waiting for him to give me some site tools i. How close were the portuguese and spanish languages in the. It is now much influenced by standard castilian spanish. He is especially popular in galicia and asturias in spain. Mutual intelligibility wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. Nowadays, im mostly based in scotland and china so my spoken spani. Special eurobarometer 243 europeans and their languages pdf.
Galician language, romance language with many similarities to the portuguese language, of which it was historically a dialect. Portuguese also has a high degree of mutual intelligibility with spanish. However, most galician speakers do not regard galician as a variety of portuguese, but as a different language, as modern galician evolved without interruption and in situ from mediaeval galician. This blog post is available as a convenient and portable pdf that you can. I am venezuelan and portuguese is quite the easiest latin language for me to understand. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The lopsided mutual intelligibility of spanish and portuguese. It is sometimes used as an important criterion for distinguishing languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used. It has been shown that portuguese listeners understand spanish better than. I am a native spanish speaker, with previous training in french, italian and portuguese.
If you speak spanish, itll sound like weird spanish, yet, you will understand it considerably more than portuguese. In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a relationship between languages or dialects in which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without prior familiarity or special effort. Galicianportuguese lost its political unity when the county of portugal obtained its independence from the kingdom of leon, a transition initiated in 19 and completed in 1179. Mutual int elligibility of languages in the slavic family hvar, vis, korcula, peljesac, the dalmatian coast at zadar and split, and inland at gacka. Jason needs to get off his lazy ass and help me with the site. The intelligibility of polish and russian is very low, maybe on the order of 510%. Venezuelans watch brazilian telenovelas and news all the time and. On the romance languages mutual intelligibility alina maria ciobanu, liviu p. Here is our guide to everything you need to know about the galician language. The one study done on spanish and portuguese in brazil found 58% intelligibility of spanish by portuguese and 50% intelligibility of of portuguese by spanish. Like between the slavic germanic language mutual intelligibility best, country, people, english europe citydata.
Lets talk about the mutual intelligibility and similarities of the germanic languages. The sound of the galicianportuguese language cantiga. Galician and portuguese continue to be rather more mutually intelligible than portuguese and spanish as a result of portugueses evolution. Mutual intelligibility is a situation in which two or more speakers of a language or of closely related languages can understand each other. On the romance languages mutual intelligibility lrec conferences. Are spanish, italian and portuguese mutually intelligible. The official institution regulating the galician language, backed by the galician government and universities, the royal galician academy, claims that modern galician must be considered an independent romance language belonging to the group of iberoromance languages and having strong ties with portuguese and its northern dialects. Spanish and portuguese are mutually intelligible to a large extent.
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