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by schoen
1272 days ago
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Definitely, Wiktionary even has the IPA /fu.t͡ʃiˈbɔw/. The "e" in futebol -- written and spoken -- is an epenthetic vowel due to Brazilian Portuguese phototactics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epenthesis#Breaking_consonant_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonotactics This is a fancy way of saying that Portuguese, unlike English, really doesn't like "tb" occurring together with no vowel in between, so people added one! (In other words that have a longer history you sometimes don't have the vowel written, but it's commonly still spoken, like advogado /a.d͡ʒi.voˈɡa.du/ 'lawyer', from Latin advocatus. IPA again from Wiktionary.) |
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