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The Imminent Death Of The São Miguel Dialect? Hardly…, David Silva
The Imminent Death Of The São Miguel Dialect? Hardly…, David Silva
David Silva
Anybody who has had the opportunity to visit the island of São Miguel and converse with the locals can’t help be struck by some extremely remarkable speech patterns.
There’s the French-sounding “u” in words such as fruta, lula, tudo and uma, as well as the German-like ö pronunciation in forms such as couve, pouco, oito, and noite.
Then there’s there are English-esque vowels in words such as sete or festa (often pronounced with a short-a sound, as in “sat” and “fasht-uh”).
And even when the vowels are, in themselves, Portuguese-sounding-enough, it often seems as they have been somehow misaligned, such …