Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-23

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00:02:05 1 Sample texts
00:04:13 2 Vocabulary
00:04:23 2.1 Cognates
00:04:43 2.1.1 Two forms vs. one form
00:05:23 2.1.2 False friends
00:05:46 2.1.3 Semantic change
00:10:25 2.1.4 Frequent function words
00:10:48 2.1.4.1 Spanish itodo/i, Portuguese itudo/i
00:11:39 2.1.4.2 Relative and interrogative pronouns
00:13:24 2.1.4.3 Spanish imuy/i and imucho/i, Portuguese imuito/i
00:14:29 2.1.4.4 Cardinal numbers
00:16:44 2.1.4.5 Conjunctions
00:18:14 2.1.4.6 iSe/i, isi/i, isí/i, and isim/i
00:19:00 2.1.4.7 Indirect object pronouns
00:19:48 2.2 Dissimilar words
00:20:22 2.2.1 French influence
00:20:58 2.2.2 Arabic influence
00:23:47 2.2.3 Influences from other languages
00:24:35 2.2.4 Days of the week
00:25:32 3 Grammar
00:25:56 3.1 Gender
00:28:59 3.2 Use of the definite article
00:33:51 3.3 Possessives
00:34:49 3.4 Pronouns
00:34:58 3.4.1 Object pronouns
00:36:06 3.4.2 Clitic personal pronouns
00:37:16 3.4.3 Mesoclisis
00:38:25 3.4.4 Combining pronouns in Spanish
00:39:52 3.4.5 Use of stressed pronouns for inanimate subjects
00:40:47 3.4.6 Second-person pronouns
00:46:04 3.5 Verbs
00:46:12 3.5.1 "To be"
00:49:25 3.5.2 Reflexive verbs
00:50:05 3.5.3 "To like"
00:51:21 3.5.4 Auxiliary verbs with the perfect
00:52:00 3.5.5 Imperfect subjunctive versus pluperfect indicative
00:53:00 3.5.6 Present perfect
00:55:36 3.5.7 Personal infinitive
00:59:27 3.5.8 Future subjunctive
01:01:02 3.5.9 Irregular verbs
01:03:02 3.6 Prepositions
01:03:10 3.6.1 Contractions
01:05:53 3.6.2 Personal "ia/i"
01:06:34 3.6.3 iIr a/i versus iir para/i
01:09:44 3.6.4 iHacia/i and ipara/i
01:11:14 3.6.5 "Going to" future
01:12:21 3.6.6 Other differences in preposition usage
01:13:03 4 Orthography
01:13:12 4.1 Alphabet
01:16:35 4.2 Question and exclamation marks
01:19:06 4.3 Different spellings for similar sounds
01:21:49 4.4 Correspondences between word endings
01:30:22 4.5 Accentuation and nasalization
01:37:42 5 Phonology
01:41:13 5.1 Early phonetic divergence
01:41:22 5.1.1 Vowels
01:45:18 5.1.1.1 Unstressed vowels
01:51:11 5.1.2 Consonants
01:54:04 5.1.3 Synaeresis
01:55:12 5.2 Different sounds with the same spelling
01:55:32 5.2.1 Sibilants
01:58:00 5.2.2 Other pronunciation differences
01:59:44 6 Contact forms
02:00:58 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related sister languages, differ in many details of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Both are part of a broader group known as West Iberian Romance, which also includes several other languages or dialects with fewer speakers, all of which are mutually intelligible to some degree.
The most obvious differences are in pronunciation. Mutual intelligibility is generally greater for the written languages than for their spoken forms. Compare, for example, the following sentences:

Al buen entendedor pocas palabras bastan (Spanish: [al ˈβ̞we̞n e̞nte̞nde̞ˈð̞o̞r ˈpo̞kas paˈlaβ̞ɾaz ˈβ̞astan])
Ao bom entendedor poucas palavras bastam (European Portuguese: [ɜw ˈβõ̞(ɰ̃) ẽ̞tẽ̞dʊ̜̆ˈðoɾ ˈpo(w)kə̻̆ɕ pə̆ˈlavɾə̆ʑ ˈβaɕtə̃w], Brazilian Portuguese: [ɐw ˈbõ̞(w̃) ĩtẽ̞de̞ˈdox ˈpo(w)kə̻̆s pɐˈlavɾə̆z ˈbaɕtə̃w])—roughly equivalent to the English proverb "A word to the wise is sufficient," or, a more literal translation, "To a good listener, a few words are enough."
There are also some significant differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese as there are between British and American English or Peninsular and Latin American Spanish. This article notes these differences below only where: 

both Brazilian and European Portuguese differ not only from each other, but from Spanish as well;
both Peninsular (i.e. European) and Latin American Spa ...