Lexical and phonetic parallelisms between the dialect spoken in Banat region, Galician and Brazilian Portuguese language Cover Image

Paralelisme lexicale şi fonetice între graiul bănăţean, galegă şi portugheza braziliană
Lexical and phonetic parallelisms between the dialect spoken in Banat region, Galician and Brazilian Portuguese language

Author(s): Adrian Damșescu
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Lexis, Language acquisition, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Theory of Communication
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: Romanic linguistics; dialect spoken in Banat; Brazilian Portuguese; semantics; phonetics;

Summary/Abstract: The presentation/ article tries to present, as it can be observed from the title, different common incidents, both at lexical and phonetic level, between the dialect spoken in the Romanian Banat region, on one hand, and Galician, as well as Brazilian Portuguese language on the other hand. As far as the phonetic coincidences are concerned, they exist especially between the Banat region dialect and Brazilian Portuguese language, because consonants “t” and “d”, followed by the vowels “e” and “i” are pronounced in a very similar way. We can even talk about a common evolution of the primitive vowel “e” towards an “i” (which indeed exists in other languages and dialects too, especially in English). Syntactic coincidences on the other hand are more frequent between Galician and Banat dialect, certain terms being common only in the two regions, being used to designate objects exclusively typical for the two areas (such as “brenta”, a large basket, woven around four sticks, which is then strapped to the shoulder, and whose origins are probably pre-Roman, probably Celtic or Celtiber)

  • Issue Year: 13/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 21-33
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian