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Closed vowel sounds Like several Slavic languages, closed vowel sounds are a prominent feature of European Portuguese. Being a stressed-time language (as opposed to syllable-timed like other Romance languages), Portuguese produces fairly consistent time gaps between stressed syllables.


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Broadly speaking, one can say that European Portuguese has three kinds of sounds that stand out: (1) close-vowel sounds, (2) hushing sounds, and (3) nasal sounds. *Learn more about phonological similarities between Portuguese and Russian: Here's why Portuguese sounds like Russian. Close-vowel sounds


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72 DeshTheWraith • 2 yr. ago I think he has one on how Romanian and Spanish sound basically the same, except if you speak one the other sounds like gibberish of the language you know. 12 ski_thru_trees • 2 yr. ago That explains so much. I'm in Greece rn and I keep thinking people are speaking Spanish until I hear a Greek word I know 39 AchillesDev


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92K Lots of people say that Portuguese sounds like Russian. Why?! In this video I examine some of the similar sounds of Portuguese and Russian (and Polish as wel.


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voityekh Why does Portuguese sound like Russian? Psycholinguistics 978 55 Sort by: Open comment sort options Add a Comment chain_shift • 3 yr. ago • Edited 3 yr. ago An oldie but a goodie :) I think it's 3 main factors: Both European Portuguese and Russian have strongly velarized alveolar lateral approximant /ɫ/.


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14 FinalDoom • 10 yr. ago • Edited 10 yr. ago I'm trying to remember the short phrase I heard today. It definitely did have the 'sh' sound. My spanish isn't good enough to have figured out what it meant or a spanish equivalent, though. It was something like "nievsh ta" nee-ev-sh-tah.


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Listen to the sample of Portuguese sound (both Brazilian and Europan) compare to Russian sound. In my opinion, they are indeed similar. However, there's some.


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Almost all of Europe is geographically closer and culturally closer to Eastern Europe comparing to Portugal.


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- Rewrite The Rules Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian? by rwtrules Rewritten: "`The rhythms of European Portuguese and Russian are quite similar, as both are stress-timed languages. Additionally, the frequent use of the "sh" sound in Portuguese also adds to the resemblance to Russian.


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Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish) : r/languagelearning r/languagelearning • 5 yr. ago spookythesquid Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish) Media Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 422 Sort by: [deleted] • 5 yr. ago I am brazilian. Last year, I was in London.


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One feature of Russian is that sibilant sounds are quite prominent (Sibilants- consonants that have a hissing or hushing sound). Portuguese contains frequent sibilants and specifically has an abundance of palato-alveolar sibilants (voiceless, voiced). Three of Russian sibilants have similar sounds to the Portuguese ones.


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Lots of people seem to think European Portuguese sounds like Russian! Find out why two totally different languages give off this impression via linguistics..


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The Influence of Borrowed Words The influence of borrowed words in Portuguese pronunciation has led to intriguing similarities with Slavic languages. One popular theory attributes this resemblance to the extensive borrowing of words across centuries.


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Is it just a coincidence? History Behind Portuguese To get a good grasp of why Portuguese sounds like it do, you'll have to look at its history. When Portugal started as a nation in 1139, it conquered territory in present-day Angola and Mozambique.


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In English, why does a Portuguese accent sound Slavic? | WordReference Forums Other Language Forums Etymology, History of languages, and Linguistics (EHL) In English, why does a Portuguese accent sound Slavic? killerbee256 May 13, 2014 K killerbee256 Senior Member American English May 13, 2014 #1