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Book: The Five-Minute Linguist

Chapter: How different are Spanish and Portuguese?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20813

Blurb:

Spanish and Portuguese share around 80 percent of their vocabulary, and most of the same grammatical structures. There are also some differences in sentence structure and word forms, as well as some words that sound the same in both languages, but have different meanings.

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