The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

How different are Spanish and Portuguese?

The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson

Ana Maria Carvalho

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Spanish and Portuguese share around 80 percent of their vocabulary, and most of the same grammatical structures. There are also some differences in sentence structure and word forms, as well as some words that sound the same in both languages, but have different meanings.

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Carvalho, Ana Maria. How different are Spanish and Portuguese?. The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 245-248 Apr 2012. ISBN 9781908049490. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=20813. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.20813. Apr 2012

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