• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I’m not a speaker of any Romance language, but Portuguese does sound kinda Slavic to me for some reason. That part of the Eastern European Portugal meme checks out.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      LangFocus has a video about that effect. It’s called something like “Why does Portuguese sound like Russian”. There are quite some phonetic and phonotactic similarities