It's a well known fact that in our timeline Brazil could have followed a similar path to the rest of Latin America and been separated into many different countries
With that in mind, we have dialects and accents in parts of the country to this day, which is natural considering the continental size of the country, which could have lead to a larger divergence from the standard portuguese
Im aware of course that Latin America is separated in many different countries and yet most of these countries still speak spanish and can understand each other fairly well despite the political separation the same ways as Quebec still speaks french despite not belonging to France anymore
However I must also point out that Brazil had some other factors in play:
1- The existence of creole languages resulting from native languages merging with portuguese to create the "Linguas Gerais" like Nheengatu and the Paulistan language
2- European immigration, specially to the southern states who received quite a bit of citizens from Italy and Germany, where these languages might still be found being spoken in a few cities
3- Asian immigration, specially to the southeast of the country, which makes Brazil have the largest japanese comnunity outside of Japan and large communities of other east asian countries as well
4- Great afro-brazilian communities who hold a cultural influence over brazilian society, specially in the North and Northeast areas of the country, who read Malê Rising must have a idea of what Im talking about
5- Geographical proximity with other Latin American countries, after all its no surprise that Brazil is influenced by it's neighbours
From the southern states neighbouring the spanish speaking Uruguay & Argentina and sharing it's gaucho culture, to the Center-West neighbouring Paraguay(that occupied said brazilian states during the Paraguayan War) who aside from spanish also speaks Guarani and the northern states who not only share a border with Bolivia but also did share it with, gasp! France(Guiana) as well as British Guyana & Dutch Suriname, with both the french and the dutch having tried to estabilish colonies in Brazil before
With that in mind and depending on when said balkanization happened - and I would like to leave that open in this topic so as to have more space for discussion - what tongues could've been born from breaking up Brazil?
To be clear, I'm looking for variations of portuguese, so no "If Portugal hadnt colonized Brazil" scenarios here unless you could spin that into a different luso dialect being spoken here
However I'm fine with anyone pointing out potential languages that could have existed due to the huge amount of different cultures that make up the brazilian nation(example: lebanese + japanese) so long it doesnt get too off-topic
Likewise I'd like examples of how such break-up could have affected the other portuguese colonies(like Angola or Macau) or even Portugal itself, so long its linguistically, if ya'll feel like it and can think of something
With that out of the way, have fun!
With that in mind, we have dialects and accents in parts of the country to this day, which is natural considering the continental size of the country, which could have lead to a larger divergence from the standard portuguese
Im aware of course that Latin America is separated in many different countries and yet most of these countries still speak spanish and can understand each other fairly well despite the political separation the same ways as Quebec still speaks french despite not belonging to France anymore
However I must also point out that Brazil had some other factors in play:
1- The existence of creole languages resulting from native languages merging with portuguese to create the "Linguas Gerais" like Nheengatu and the Paulistan language
2- European immigration, specially to the southern states who received quite a bit of citizens from Italy and Germany, where these languages might still be found being spoken in a few cities
3- Asian immigration, specially to the southeast of the country, which makes Brazil have the largest japanese comnunity outside of Japan and large communities of other east asian countries as well
4- Great afro-brazilian communities who hold a cultural influence over brazilian society, specially in the North and Northeast areas of the country, who read Malê Rising must have a idea of what Im talking about
5- Geographical proximity with other Latin American countries, after all its no surprise that Brazil is influenced by it's neighbours
From the southern states neighbouring the spanish speaking Uruguay & Argentina and sharing it's gaucho culture, to the Center-West neighbouring Paraguay(that occupied said brazilian states during the Paraguayan War) who aside from spanish also speaks Guarani and the northern states who not only share a border with Bolivia but also did share it with, gasp! France(Guiana) as well as British Guyana & Dutch Suriname, with both the french and the dutch having tried to estabilish colonies in Brazil before
With that in mind and depending on when said balkanization happened - and I would like to leave that open in this topic so as to have more space for discussion - what tongues could've been born from breaking up Brazil?
To be clear, I'm looking for variations of portuguese, so no "If Portugal hadnt colonized Brazil" scenarios here unless you could spin that into a different luso dialect being spoken here
However I'm fine with anyone pointing out potential languages that could have existed due to the huge amount of different cultures that make up the brazilian nation(example: lebanese + japanese) so long it doesnt get too off-topic
Likewise I'd like examples of how such break-up could have affected the other portuguese colonies(like Angola or Macau) or even Portugal itself, so long its linguistically, if ya'll feel like it and can think of something
With that out of the way, have fun!
