Portuguese vs French
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<<Arabic substratum would mean the peoples who acquired the Latin language in the Iberian peninsula were Arabic speakers. In reality they spoke Celtic languages, possibly an Italic one (Lusitanian), and Iberian. These are substratum. Germanic and Arabic languages are superstratum. >>
Actually, the first part of the above "Arabic substratum would mean the peoples who acquired the Latin language in the Iberian peninsula were Arabic speakers" is correct.
The history of the Iberian Peninsula was
1). Latin imposed over Celtic
2). Arabic imposed over Latin
3). Latin RE-imposed over Arabic
So you are confusing the two Latin-imposition events. Latin in Iberia therefore has 2 separate substrata: one Celtic (initial) and one Arabic (reconquest)
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Spanish is the evolution of Latin spoken in Northern Spain, where Arabic was never spoken, so how come can it be substratum?.
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Portuguese will by much more important than French in the near future.
I personally think French is a more elegant and beautiful language than Portuguese, but you must keep in mind that Portuguese's speakers aren't mainly in Portugal. They're in Brazil! Portugal's Portuguese speaking population is only 10 million, and Brazil's is 190 million!
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portuguese in portugal is virtually a whole other language from the one in brazil. french is better. fuck portuguese. spanish and portuguese will never be prestigious. they hardly contributed a thing to science and technology. french has, very much. on your resume (which is a french word) french would be more prestigious, considering it's not from a biased portuguese or spanish speaking piece of shit.
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2). Arabic imposed over Latin
huge nonsense:
They spoke mozarabic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozarabic_language
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FUCK ENGLISH!!! Its so plain and Boring!!
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