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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Brazil
Languages of Brazil:
"As of 2019, the population of Brazil speaks or signs approximately 228 languages, of which 217 are indigenous and 11 came with immigrants!"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Brazil
"As of 2019, the population of Brazil speaks or signs approximately 228 languages, of which 217 are indigenous and 11 came with immigrants"
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And despite the stereotype of Brazil being Hispanic, most Brazilians live "isolated" in a bubble from our Hermanos.
Very few contents from Hispanic America, like Movies, TV shows, cinema, literature, are a hit here.
One of the reasons is that most of population live far away from the borders, only in areas that border Hispanic America, like Uruguay and Argentina, you'll see a significant number of Brazilians speaking Spanish, no, Portunhol.
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You are correct, but just saying if we consider germanic peoples together they are not far behind, for example over 500.000 immigrants to Brazil were germans plus austrian plus swiss. A big part of all this people label themselves as germanic and also part speak Hunsrik. I would say german immigrants had an way higher fertility rate due to its rural character than spaniards that were mostly in urban areas.
Last semester I did a thread about the 750.000 invisible spaniard immigrants, I saw them for the first time on the midia on a spanish novel about a galician ship to Brazil called Alto Mar. I never saw this group being represented on brazilian novela or any other brazilian midia. There is also a big naval disaster with them called Titanic Brasileiro when 1200 spaniards colided with a rock and sunked during a big Storm in São Paulo Coast. Few survived. Today, I would say Brazil has slight over 15 milion Spain descendants, not considering the colonial iberian mixes that would be much more dozens of milions.
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Its always a surprise to me to see how many native languages Brazil has, despite mostly are spoken by 200-600 people, thats still crazy.
Its also interesting how German is the most spoken language after Portuguese, guys 1.5 milion standart german more 3-5 milion hunsruk speakers thats a lot! Brazil probably has more german speakers than any other country outside Europe? More than USA? Anyway, Brazil even has its onw german language, Hunsruk could be compared to Afrikanner in South Africa. Also 4 milion Talian speakers thats another a big number, its comparable to NZ population and more than the Boer population of Africa. Talian could also be compared to Afrikanner since it also has its peculiarities and not equal to italian.
I dont know if it could be considered different languages/dialects, but some closed rural areas speak with strong influences from Medieval Portuguese, they say Tchuva instead of Chuva("xuva") and Barrer instead of Varrer.
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Here is the US by comparison: https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...-United-States
You are right that even the US has fewer Standard German speakers than Brazil: 1,060,000 compared to 1.5 million. However, there are also 133,000 speakers of Pennsylvanian German (mainly Amish), 10,800 Hutterite speakers and 12,000 Plautdietsch speakers.
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