Why is Portuguese not phonetic?
Portuguese has 26 letters in its alphabet in total and those 26 letters are the same as in English. This is because Portuguese isn’t a phonetic language. A phonetic language is one where you know how to say a word just by reading how it is spelt. English, like Portuguese, isn’t phonetic.
Does Spanish or Portuguese sound better?
It’s not really bad, but it can get a bit cloying if you listen to it too much. Portuguese, on the other hand, sounds quite pleasant and also rather distinctive from its other Romance counterparts (Italian, Catalan, Latin, etc). It’s less “noticeable” than Spanish and it seems to be more smoother.
Why are Portuguese sounds different than Spanish?
As Portugal is isolated geographically from the Mediterranean it makes sense that linguistic memetic flow continued more readily among the other proto-Romance speaking countries during the Renaissance, leaving Portuguese to evolve more-or-less on its own. Thus, it sounds different from the other Romance languages.
Why is Spanish so phonetic?
Because the people and institutions who developed and have maintained the Spanish spelling thought that having a phonological system that reflected the pronunciation was more desirable than having a system which, like English spelling, sheds light on the origins and history of words.
Is Spanish very different from Portuguese?
Spanish and Portuguese are indeed sister languages. Undeniably, they share the same linguistic root and have a lot in common. Most of the grammar rules and much of the vocabulary are similar. Yet, they do have a lot of little differences that altogether make them distinct languages.
Does Italian sound better than Spanish?
In my ears Italian sounds more beautiful than Spanish. Its rhythm is pleasant because of the emphasis being nearly without exception on the penultimate syllable, because it uses plenty of vowels and lacks h and the harsh sounds produced at the back of mouth and throat. It is melodic and has an easily joined rhythm.
Is Portuguese more widely spoken than Spanish?
Whilst Spanish is the most widely spoken Romance language in the world, Portuguese is a close second (in terms of native speakers).
Why is Spanish not a phonetic language?
Each Spanish-speaking country has its own slight variations in pronunciation, vocabulary, and, in some cases, structure. Unlike English, Spanish is a phonetic language: within the limits of a few simple rules, letters are pronounced consistently. This makes it a comparatively easy language to learn to speak.
Is Spanish a nasal language?
, BA in Linguistics and worked in the speech synthesis industry; I speak English, French, Spanish, and a smatte… Basically every language has nasalized vowel allophones. For example, the vowel /æ/ in the English word man (/mæn/) is nasalized due to the adjacent nasal consonants.