>Lexical similarity: 89% >nearly 9/10 words in spanish have a cognate in portuguese and viceversa Are these the most closely related languages on earth?
Some examples: >La capacidad de expresión del hombre no dispondría de más medios que la de los animales. La voz, sola, es para el hombre apenas una materia informe, que para convertirse en un instrumento perfecto de comunicación debe ser sometida a un cierto tratamiento. Esa manipulación que recibe la voz son las "articulaciones". >A capacidade de expressão do homem não disporia de mais meios que a dos animais. A voz, sozinha, é para o homem apenas uma matéria informe, que para se converter num instrumento perfeito de comunicação deve ser submetida a um certo tratamento. Essa manipulação que a voz recebe são as "articulações". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Portuguese_and_Spanish i think most of us with more than 90 IQ can read the other's language.
>Are these the most closely related languages on earth?
czech and slovakian maybe are closer
Jeremiah Stewart
Scandinavian and south Slavic languages are probably just as close
Eli Williams
Catalan and Occitan are closer I think
Adam Collins
It depends what you qualifie as a unique language or as just a dialect
Cameron Turner
Maybe. I'm Brazilian and I tried to watch "Roma" in Spanish but couldn't understand it as much as I thought I would so I had to switch to Portuguese subs.
Jeremiah White
no sorry catalan is way harder to understand for an average spanish speaker portuguese is closer to spanish, altho their accent makes it hard to understand their texts is clearly wayyy more similar to spanish >El idioma portugués es muy parecido al español, pues posee una similaridad léxica del 89 %, más que el castellano con el catalán (85 %), con el italiano (82 %) o con el francés (75 %).11 Además el portugués comparte enormes similitudes con el gallego, ya que provienen de la misma lengua medieval, el galaicoportugués. basically, portuguese is more "iberian" than catalan. portuguese is kind of like medieval spanish, since they kept their F >fazer - hacer >feitizo - hechizo >falar - hablar i heard that portuguese speakers have an easier time understanding spaniards than the other way around either way, if you both slow down and use simple words you could probably have a simple conversation without knowing the other language, but its way easier with texts ofc
Brody Rodriguez
>i think most of us with more than 90 IQ can read the other's language
there are no excuses to someone don't understand the write form of each other, when i was a kid, before have leraned english i used to pick always spanish language in games because it were basically the same so i could understand, different from english
Adrian Ward
>fazer - hacer >feitizo - hechizo >falar - hablar pure spaniard autismo
Eli Sanders
>Are these the most closely related languages on earth? You’re giving yourself way too much credit with that eurocentrism. Like what said
Jacob Rogers
You still don't know English, kiddo.
Mason Hughes
remember to ignore the leaf that just entered the thread, the other leaf is cool tho yeah scandinavian languages are really close, i didnt think of that. scottish is closely related to them too right? or am i thinking of the wrong thing i think spanish speaking countries should allow at least the OPTION of learning portuguese at school... i would've picked it over french or latin for sure
Portuguese, English and French. Your English is terrible judging by your post. Just saying.
Joshua Flores
i knew, you are a brazilian faggot studing english in canada, and now thinks that know more than anyone, fuck off
Kayden Baker
he said catalan and occitan
Jacob Smith
His English is fine, Zhang
Joseph Perez
It's really easy to understand on written form and even a little in spoken form. But when it comes to actually speaking Portuguese it's not that easy because there are a lot of phenoms we don't have in Spanish.
Levi Morris
if we exclude croatian, bosnia, serb, and nordic tongues because they are dialects of each other than maybe spanish to portugal are the closest languages to each other
Im still trying to find out the lexical similarity between nordic dialects but they dont exist possibly because it's well over 94% and nobody bothers with lexical similarities of dialects
Easton Cooper
youre english is indeed bad, work on this
what country are you from that you cant recognize his mistakes?
Josiah Roberts
Czech and Slovak are 93% Slovene and Serbocroatian are officially 85% similar though for complex reasons it's more like 80% Never looked up the proximity between the Scandinavian languages
Juan Sanchez
what i dont understand is how is the lexical similarity between german and english 60%? when there are more french words than germanic origin words in the english langauge
also supposedly catalan is the closest romance langauge to romanian? like how the fuck ?
Robert Howard
and only 27% for french
Jayden Peterson
>Are these the most closely related languages on earth? Are you serious? What about Galician?
Ian James
beats me, m8, never managed to learn German myself due to its being simply too foreign and my knowledge of English didn't help me along in my endeavour one bit
>scottish is closely related to them too right? I don't think so, scottish gaelic is really similar to irish gaelic as far as I know though and probably to other gaelic languages such as briton and if you consider scots a language it's pretty much just like english but it's consider by many as simply a dialect despite their rather different spelling
Andrew Thomas
yes, that's why it's only 60
Joshua Barnes
C'mon, man, you gotta give it up for Scots wiki cause it's one of the best parts of the internet on the whole
galician and portuguese are extremelly related, some galician linguists even go to the point of saying its a dialect of portuguese and want to incorporate portuguese characteristics (lusistas)
Cameron Lewis
isnt galician the ancestor of portuguese
Robert Anderson
Based Galicia and portugal were once a country and our languages are pratically the same
Joseph Reyes
i am from Russia
Adam Ross
sounds like a cope
save the brazillians sentences and try to find the mistakes
Tyler Stewart
you are part of Leon and the kingdom of Galicia a meme
Jack Price
galicians are the ones who conquered the land of modern portugal from the moors portucalense was a condate from galicia some complex medieval shit idk, basically portugal became independent while galicia was culturally and economically discriminated by the kingdom of castille one thing that triggers me is taht in portuguese schoolbooks they call old galician "medieval portuguese", when literally every source calls it galician
Camden Collins
a difference in language isn't based on word similarity, fyi
Josiah Edwards
yep just as i thought it's a portuguese cope , thanks for the explanation it was useful
Easton Wood
We don't even mention old galician in schools tho.Medieval portuguese is not old galician.Also portuguese has mutated and evolved into a completely different thing while galician just mixed with castillian and nowadays NO ONE in galicia speaks galician without a spanish/castillian accent
Charles James
Spanish and Italian are based. Portuguese sounds like down syndrome.
Blake Harris
He's spreading misinformation,this is galician,look at how that language sounds almost undiscernible from castillian
>one thing that triggers me is taht in portuguese schoolbooks they call old galician "medieval portuguese" it's a simplification, mostly because kids are expected to be completely uninterested in school and, as such, unable to memorise minor details in the grand scheme of things.
Galician-Portuguese relation is spoken about in portuguese classes, not history clases. As it makes more sense to study it with examples of how language evolved. History classes may talk about the episodes, like the plot of mommy (Tareja of León) and her galician lover (Fernando de la trava) to take over the whole kingdom or Pedro I and Inês de Castro
