Porglish

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Porglish (referred to in Portuguese as portinglês) refers to various types of language contact between Portuguese and English which have occurred in regions where the two languages coexist. These range from improvised code-switching between bilingual speakers of each language to more or less stable dialects. The name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese words português and inglês ("English").

This kind of pidgin is rare but observable in Macau, among the British expatriate in Portugal and Portuguese speakers in North America. The best-studied example of this is spoken in the Portuguese communities in California, in Hawaii (pidgin contributions) and in the region between Fall River and New Bedford in Southeastern Massachusetts.

[edit] As code-switching

It is the name often given to any unsystematic mixture of Portuguese with English (code-switching). This is sometimes used by speakers of the two languages to talk to each other.

Portinglês is similar to Spanglish and it is basically composed of English and Portuguese lexicon and a Portuguese grammar.

[edit] Examples

Among Brazilian-Americans

• Aplicação - application (instead of Port.formulário)
• Apontamento - appointment (instead of Port.horário)
• Attachar or Atachar - to attach (instead of Port. anexar)
• Bicar - to have a coffee (instead of Port. tomar uma bica)
• Bizado or Bisado - busy (instead of Port. ocupado)
• Bootar or Butar - to boot, usually computers (instead of Port. iniciar)
• Dar um Suit - to sue (instead of Port. processar)
• Deletar - to delete (instead of Port. excluir, apagar, suprimir)
• Dropar - to drop (instead of Port. derrubar, descartar, descer)
• Escanear or Scanear - to scan (instead of Port. digitalizar, varrer, ler, examinar)
• Espreiar or Spreiar - to spray (instead of Port. pulverizar, borrifar)
• Eslaidar or Slidar - to slide (instead of Port. escorregar, deslizar, resvalar)
• Frizar or Frisar - to freeze (instead of Port. congelar)
• Inicializar - to initialize (instead of Port. iniciar)
• Ordenar - to place an order (instead of Port. encomendar, fazer um pedido, requisitar)
• Parkear or Parquear - to park (instead of Port.estacionar)
• Printar - to print out (instead of Port. imprimir)
• Ser Suposto a / Estar Suposto a - to be supposed to (instead of Port. dever, dever de)
• Startar - to start (instead of Port. iniciar)
• Uppar - to up (on a level; slang term used for RPG games by Brazilian players, instead of Port. evoluir)
• Vacuumar or Vequiar - to vacuum (instead of Port. aspirar from aspirador)
• Ligar, chamar, ou telefonar para trás - to call back (instead of Port. "ligar, chamar, ou telefonar de volta")

[edit] Bibliography

• Manuel Da Costa Fontes (Oct.,1975). "A New Portuguese Ballad Collection from California". . Western Folklore, Vol. 34, No. 4

• Multiple other citations at the Portuguese-American Historical & Research Foundation: http://www.portuguesefoundation.org/newbooks.htm

[edit] See also

• Llanito
• English
• English dialects
• Portuguese dialects
• Code-switching
• Portunhol
• Spanglish

[edit] External links

• PORTINGLÊS

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