Why Does Portuguese Sound Slavic?
Stress-Timed Languages. a Common Feature Between Portuguese and Slavic Languages Is the Fact That They Are Stress-Timed Languages. in Stress-Timed Languages...
Stress-timed languages. A common feature between Portuguese and Slavic languages is the fact that they are stress-timed languages. In stress-timed languages, as opposed to syllable-timed languages, the time intervals between stressed syllables is fairly consistent.
Does Portuguese have Slavic influence?
Portuguese doesn't have slavic influences through Romanian, Romanian was influenced by its surrounding slavic languages after it split off from the rest of the romance languages. It's basically just coincidence, same reason that Spanish sounds eerily like Greek.
Why does Portuguese sound so weird?
As Portugal is isolated geographically from the Mediterranean it makes sense that linguistic memetic flow continued more readily among the other proto-Romance speaking countries during the Renaissance, leaving Portuguese to evolve more-or-less on its own. Thus, it sounds different from the other Romance languages.
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