Portuñol

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Portuñol or Portunhol is a portmanteau of the words Português/Portugués (Portuguese) and Español/Espanhol (Spanish). It refers to various types of language contact between Spanish and Portuguese which have occurred in regions where the two languages coexist. These range from improvised code-switching between monolingual speakers of each language to more or less stable mixed languages. The best-studied example of this is Portunhol Riverense, spoken in the region between Uruguay and Brazil.

Contents 1 As code-switching 2 As a language variety 2.1 Portuñol Riverense 3 Bibliography 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] As code-switching

It is the name often given to any unsystematic mixture of Portuguese with Spanish (code-switching). This is sometimes used by speakers of the two languages to talk to each other. It is possible to conduct a moderately fluent conversation in this way because Portuguese and Spanish are closely related languages.

[edit] As a language variety

[edit] Portuñol Riverense

Main article: Riverense Portuñol language

It also refers to a mixed language which is spoken in the border between Uruguay and Brazil, notably in the region of the twin cities of Rivera and Santana do Livramento, where the border is open and a street is the only line dividing the two countries. This condition, over hundreds of years, gave rise to a new language, which their speakers call portuñol/portunhol, brazilero, or fronterizo/fronteiriço. It has been studied extensively by linguists.

[edit] Bibliography

• Lipski, John M. (2006). "Too close for comfort? the genesis of “portuñol/portunhol”". Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium. ed. Timothy L. Face and Carol A. Klee, 1-22. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

[edit] External links

• (Portuguese) Page on Portunhol at Unicamp - University of Campinas, São Paulo

[edit] See also

• Llanito
• Spanglish
• Extremaduran language
• Portuguese dialects
• Code-switching
• Porglish
• Portuguese Poetry

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