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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    There are many people in Brazil of Spanish and Dutch descent, aren't there?
    most spanish in brazil are Andalusian!

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    Quote Originally Posted by bandeirante View Post
    most spanish in brazil are Andalusian!
    And Galician. Both are Spanish anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Smaug View Post
    I do not believe that is the proper way of grouping these languages. Some of the languages you put under the "Immigration Languages" list are as spoken as and have been spoken for as long as languages such as Italian and German. I am referring especially to Japanese and Arabic.
    I'm only quoting the Ethnologue article. Don't shoot the messenger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    There are many people in Brazil of Spanish and Dutch descent, aren't there?
    Yes to both.
    Spaniards, for example, were/are the "invisible" immigrants, when people talk about immigration to Brazil, they focuse on Italians, Germans, etc., not the Spanish, which is ironic, they were the third largest Euro group to immigrate to Brazil during the XIX and XX centuries ( they came mainly from Galiza and Andalusia), after Portuguese and Italians, and way ahead of Germans.

    We also have distant Spanish blood in Brazil, they were present here during colonial times, specially during the Iberian Union, and were aborbed into the population, but their legacy can be noted in some surnames, like Camargo, Bueno, etc.

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    I think they've got more languages spoken in Brazil than the 22 regional languages spoken in India.

    I think Portuguese is the main language in Brazil as the majority of Brazilians are Lusophones.

    There's 300 languages where I live which are mostly spoken by migrants as we have a lot of diaspora of peoples from around the globe who've chosen to live here. (I live in West London, UK, which is also officially the sixth largest French speaking city in the world due to the 3-400,000 French citizens living here, although Polish is officially the second largest language spoken in my country and is more spoken than Cornish and other regional languages here.)
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    But anyway, most Brazilians only speak Portuguese.

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    99% of brazilians only speak portuguese.

    It happens the same than in the Hispanic world, in Spain there is a bigger % of people that speaks regional/minoritary lenguages than in all Latin American countries except Bolivia, Guatemala and Paraguay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ♥ Lily ♥ View Post
    I think they've got more languages spoken in Brazil than the 22 regional languages spoken in India.
    India is far more linguistically diverse than Brazil. It is not even a comparison. In addition to those 22 regional languages, there are several much smaller local languages, including some without even a written form, such as Kutchi (quite a common language among Leicester Indians).

    The key difference is that India's linguistic diversity is overwhelmingly due to native languages, whereas in Brazil (as with the US, of course), their linguistic diversity is due to a mixture of both native languages and immigrant ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latinus View Post
    But anyway, most Brazilians only speak Portuguese.
    Indeed, I'd even go so far as to say that Brazil and Russia are the two contenders for the "worst country at languages" award that do not speak either English or Spanish as their first language.

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    Brazil is proud to have spread the Portuguese language to the entire population, only a few people maintain another language as a second language.

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