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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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How did "li" come to mean "here" in Cape Verdean Creole?
The words li and la in Cape Verdean Creole look parallel to the Portuguese words ali and lá. There's just one problem: li and ali are opposites. Li means "here", while ali means "there". … There are differences between ali and lá, with ali being used to refer to locations near the person being spoken to, but it certainly doesn't mean "here"; Portuguese uses aqui or cá to express that, and …
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What sound change(s) underlie [iʒ-] in São Vicente?
I found this in a couple words of the São Vicente dialect of Cape Verdean Creole, which is related to both Portuguese and other dialects of Cape Verdean Creole:
| Portuguese | Sotavento Creoles … of the initial unstressed vowels present in Portuguese. Many words start with [ʃt-], [ʃk-], [ʃp-], etc. …
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Is anything known about the origin of the hard "g" in "guénti" in Santiago, Cape Verdean Cre...
It clearly comes from the Portuguese word "gente", which has about the same meaning, as most words in Cape Verdean Creole come from Portuguese. … However, the Portuguese "gente" (along with the Barlavento Creole dialects' "gente" /'ʒɛnt(ɨ)/) has a soft g [ʒ] instead of a hard g [g]. …
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Before being borrowed by Europeans, was "hurricane" ever pronounced with an initial "f"?
A spelling with an initial "f" has been preserved in many of the other Iberian languages: Portuguese, Galician, and Asturian, at least. … Did this "f" in Portuguese "furacão" come from the Americas, or was it created in Iberia? …
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