Re: Galician, Castillian and Portuguese

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com.invalid)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:30:35 +0200

Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:58:45 +0200: Javi <poziNOSPAMyo@hotmail.com>: in
sci.lang:

>Ruud Harmsen wrote:
>
>[snip interesting stuff for brevity]
>
>> 3) Perhaps Galician (the pure, original kind, not influenced by
>> Castillian) is really phonetically closer to Castillian than is modern
>> Portuguese, because the three languages were originally closely
>> related (well, clearly they still are), and Portuguese deviated
>> phonetically in recent times (the last hundred year or so, or couple
>> of hundred).
>
>
>> Hypothesis 3) seems likely to some extent from what I've been reading
>> this last week in old books (dating from 1576 to 1914, see list at
>> http://rudhar.com/foneport/en/cpyrport.htm#OldPhonetBook ) on
>> Portuguese phonetics and orthography.
>
>I think that you are very right about that, only take it a little
>farther: after the middle seventeenth century, at the beginning of the
>18th; when Portugal became independent from Spain, the courtisans and
>the gentry wanted their language to be as different from Spanish as
>possible, so they began to speak Portuguese with that queer accent, and
>the peasants, after some time, followed them.

Middle XVII is 1650, start of XVIII is 1700, so beginning with the
book written in 1736 in the above list I should see traces of this
"queer accent". But I didn't see them. (I didn't fully read all the
books well enough yet, but perhaps I will). 

-- 
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com/

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