Why do so few native speakers of Spanish and Portuguese learn each others' languages?

**Ruggery** · 09-30-2023, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

No, even English and German are 64% lexically similar according to Ethnologue, so Dutch and German must be close to Portuguese and Spanish in that regard. And besides, hardly any speakers of Portuguese and Italian (aside from some Italian Paulistas, of course - though even most multi-generational Italo-Brazilians don't speak Italian) learn each others' languages either. (Btw, Ethnologue says the Portuguese-Italian lexical similarity rate is about 71%).

How did you see that on Ethnolongue?

**Tooting Carmen** · 09-30-2023, 11:20 PM

Originally Posted by Ruggery

How did you see that on Ethnolongue?

Before it went under a paywall.

**Ruggery** · 10-01-2023, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Before it went under a paywall.

I went to their page and I don't see that option so I guess it's within the options if you pay.

**Incal** · 10-01-2023, 02:26 AM

Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen

Portuguese phonology is rather more complex.

Depends on the sotaque.

**Tooting Carmen** · 10-01-2023, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Incal

Depends on the sotaque.

Iberian in particular.

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