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A Romance language spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and other former Portuguese colonies. For non-linguistic questions about the Portuguese language, visit our sister site Portuguese Language Stack Exchange.

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Which language is the closest lexically to Spanish?

How do we factor in Asturian's esconsoñar and Portuguese and Mirandese’s acordar? … Gato in Portuguese/Mirandese is gato which might make them look closer to Spanish, but oftentimes the pronunciation will trend closer towards /u/ (Mirandese) or even silent (Portuguese) in which case … …
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What vowels are most likely to be deleted in European Portuguese?

Not the most detailed answer I can provide but Portuguese isn't as much my forte. …
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Before being borrowed by Europeans, was "hurricane" ever pronounced with an initial "f"?

I'm not very familiar with the history of Portuguese phonetics, but my guess is that when the word huracán was imported in Spanish (being then aspirated, unlike now), when it got to the Portuguese, they …
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