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Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon.Both belong to a subset of the Romance languages known as West Iberian Romance, which also includes several other languages or dialects with fewer speakers, all of which are mutually intelligible to some degree.
Like other Western Europeans, among Spaniards and Portuguese the Y-DNA Haplogroup R1b is the most frequent, occurring at over 70% throughout most of Spain. [65] R1b is particularly dominant in the Basque Country and Catalonia, occurring at rate of over 80%. In Iberia, most men with R1b belong to the subclade R-P312 (R1b1a1a2a1a2; as of 2017).
In Portuguese and Spanish (as in other languages with similar forms), the "extra-polite" forms in time came to be the normal polite forms, and the former polite (or plural) second-person vos was displaced to a familiar form, either becoming a familiar plural (as in European Spanish) or a familiar singular (as in many varieties of Latin American ...
In North America 1,000,000 people speak Portuguese as their home language, mainly immigrants from Brazil, Portugal, and other Portuguese-speaking countries and their descendants. [22] In Oceania, Portuguese is the second most spoken Romance language, after French, due mainly to the number of speakers in East Timor.
This list points to common traits of these Iberian subsets, especially when compared to the other Romance languages in general. Thus, changes such as Catalan vuit/huit and Portuguese oito vs. Spanish ocho are not shown here, as the change -it- > -ch- is exclusive to Spanish among the Iberian Romance languages.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 December 2024. Romance language "Castilian language" redirects here. For the specific variety of the language, see Castilian Spanish. For the broader branch of Ibero-Romance, see West Iberian languages. Spanish Castilian español castellano Pronunciation [espaˈɲol] ⓘ [kasteˈʝano ...
Hispanic, Latino and Spanish are popular terms people use to identify themselves. For many who identify as Hispanic, Latino and Spanish, they recognize their family’s origins and/or speak the ...
Portuguese, Asturians, Leonese people, other Spaniards Galicians ( Galician : galegos [ɡaˈleɣʊs] ; Spanish: gallegos [ɡaˈʎeɣos] ) are a Romance-speaking European ethnic group [ 7 ] from northwestern Spain; they are closely related to the northern Portuguese people [ 8 ] and have their historic homeland in Galicia , in the north-west of ...