Portuñol heard more often in Brazil
Wednesday August 13, 2003
Portuñol, a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese, is being used more and more in Brazil, much as Spanglish is frequently used in the United States. One example of popular usage is sugo, a combination of the Spanish jugo and the Portuguese suco, both of which mean "juice." Brazilian leaders don't seem particularly concerned about the mixture of languages, saying that if anything it is symbolic of efforts by Brazil to integrate itself more completely with the rest of Latin America. Read more (in Spanish)... (Source: Reuters)


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