My Portuguese professor told me that Portuguese derives in goodly measure from Old Provençal (it migrated from southern France). Additionally, Portuguese strongly resembles Old Galician, a language from the northwestern corner of Spain adjacent to northern mainland Portugal.
I find, after studied Portuguese, that Spanish sounds a bit to my ear like a simplified/clarified form of Portuguese. The all-star baseball player/manager Davey Lopes, of half Cape Verdean ancestry through his father's side, pronounces his surname the Anglicized way, in one syllable "lopes," rather than "LOPE-ish" like in European Portuguese or "LOPE-eez" like in Brazilian Portuguese. Katharine. On Friday, February 1, 2013 5:46:40 PM UTC-5, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Lionel, > > Around the Portuguese hall in Artesia, I hear "Lopes" rhyming with "ropes." > > My introduction into Portuguese was through the band in Artesia. Many are > from Terceira and speak with that accent. After listening to them for 2 > years, I went to Sao Miguel. For a day and half, I couldn't understand the > accent. After 2 weeks there, I went back to the band and had to get used > the accent there. > > I guess it's the same as in America (and perhaps other countries) where a > documentary is filmed. The people they are interviewing are native > speakers of your language, but the are somewhat hard to understand. I > think of documentaries from the rural south of the United States. > > Every country will have regional accents and so will the Azores for their > various regions. > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
