Italian language; closer in sound to Romanian or Portuguese (from Portugal)?

[Sikeliot]

Same question but replacing Spanish with Italian.

[Harmonia]

Italian sounds closer to Romanian, imo.

[Sikeliot]

I think that due to the connotation of Spain and Portugal as twin siblings, it is easier to put Italian closer to Romanian than it would be to associate Spanish with Romanian.

[Peyrol]

For me, in the grammar is more close to portuguese, because psoken romanian sounds very slavized.

In a absolute comparison, with romanian.

[Aivap]

I can't believe that 6 persons have voted Romania.
Italian sounds completly different than Romanian, nobody in Italy can understand a single word of Romanian, while most Italians can understand Portuguese if spoken slowly.
Anyway they both sounds different than Italian, and Romanians to our ears sounds like Russian!

[Peyrol]

I can't believe that 6 persons have voted Romania.
Italian sounds completly different than Romanian, nobody in Italy can understand a single word of Romanian, while most Italians can understand Portuguese if spoken slowly.
Anyway they both sounds different than Italian, and Romanians to our ears sounds like Russian!

Spoken romanian sounds totally slavic.

But no one of the voter's nation has about 2 million romanian/moldovan immigrants, so they probabily base the comparison on written languages :laugh:

[Aramis]

Spoken romanian sounds totally slavic.

But no one of the voter's nation has about 2 million romanian/moldovan immigrants, so they probabily base the comparison on written languages :laugh:

Depends on the perspective. My native tounge is a slavic one, and romanian doesn't sound slavic to me at all (nor to any other slavic speaker I've asked).

[Peyrol]

Depends on the perspective. My native tounge is a slavic one, and romanian doesn't sound slavic to me at all (nor to any other slavic speaker I've asked).

For me (and for 90% of italian people) sounds totally alien, i can't understand a single word of spoken romanian.

Written one it's quite easy, on the other side.

[Geronimo]

Depends on the perspective. My native tounge is a slavic one, and romanian doesn't sound slavic to me at all (nor to any other slavic speaker I've asked).

Well, it's pretty much like this : to slavs romanian sounds like italian, to italians (and other latins except romanians) romanian sounds slavic, or slavic influenced.

The truth is that romanian is close to italian despite its slavic influence.

[Aivap]

I' ve already watched some Romanian videos on youtube, you are right, it sounds a bit like Italian. I didn't think that I could undertand it, though it still sounds more like slavic languages to me.

Italian
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Romanian
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[Geronimo]

Italian
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by the way I dont speak italian ...

[Comte Arnau]

^ Italian is soo easily understandable it's not even funny! :D

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

The vowel system is a bit closer to Portuguese; the consonantal one, maybe a bit closer to Romanian.
The lexical and morphological structures are still much closer to Portuguese than to Romanian, however, and when you compare actual speech (as opposed to abstract phonetic/phonological systems) this counts.

The question is harder than with Spanish; as a native Italian speaker, both Romanian and European Portuguese are not so easy to understand for me, even though Portuguese is probably for the abovementioned reason: once I get past phonetics, I can actually recognize lexemes and morphemes similar to the ones of Italian.

But in this case I'll remain agnostic.