Talk:History of Portuguese

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Why?
I don't see why this article is being moved back from history of Portuguese constantly. That title can only reasonably refer to the language in proper English. If it were called "history of the Portuguese" it would be different, but that's not a problem since it's not standard usage of English to use the language name that way and implies the people rather than the language. As far as I see it, only the langauge can be properly referred to in the singular indefinite form.

Peter Isotalo 08:51, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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Voicing is Lenition
It's more than a bit odd to have degemination listed as Lenition, but voicing not. Voicing is the classic oft-cited lenition of Western Romance (and it should be clearer in the text that it's phonemic). An argument can even be made that in its essence degemination is syllabic restructuring rather than a form of lenition tout court. That's getting much too deep into the weeds for a Wikipedia article IMO, but it should be presented that voicing is lenition as well, and that it's, e.g. /k/ > /g/, not simply [k] > [g]. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 16:32, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Arabic roots missing
Portuguese language has a lot of influence from Arabic. A seemingly relevant fact that is completely omitted in the article. See https://alugha.com/article/92fe92f1-fd2e-11e8-83a9-034d661187a4?lang=eng — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.250.97.100 (talk) 13:42, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Nasalization: no examples with medial 'm'
Is it because all such words, e.g. primeiro, amar, are borrowings from Spanish, or is the current introduction to this section wrong and only n was elided in that position? 195.187.108.4 (talk) 18:30, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * This is inaccurate: "In medieval Galician-Portuguese, /m/ and /n/ between vowels or at the end of a syllable became the velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/". Medial /mm/ and /m/ merged in the more general collapse of geminates due to /m/ undergoing no disturbance, unlike /n/. Note that there are no examples given of "elided" medial /m/. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 18:03, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Yep, that's what I'm talking about. No examples of medial m turning into nasalization, as if the part you're citing was inaccurate. 195.187.108.4 (talk) 18:35, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Right. The statement "In medieval Galician-Portuguese, /m/ and /n/ between vowels or at the end of a syllable became the velar nasal phoneme /ŋ/". is untrue. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 20:11, 26 April 2022 (UTC)