Manual of Brazilian Portuguese Linguistics by Johannes Kabatek Albert Wall

Author:Johannes Kabatek, Albert Wall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2022-10-12T06:55:29.433000+00:00

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Japanese in contact with Portuguese in Brazil

The largest population of Japanese origin outside of Japan is found in Brazil, with numbers approaching two million, of which an estimated 380,000 still speak at least some Japanese (ethnologue.com). The Japanese immigration to Brazil began in 1908 and reached its peak in the period 1910–1940, with another spike occurring in the late 1950’s. Japanese immigrants were often viewed with ambivalence in Brazil, which together with Japanese cultural pride resulted in the tenacious retention of the Japanese language beyond the first generation (Adachi 1997, 2001; Kanazawa and Loveday 1988). Brazilian Portuguese has definitively influenced the Japanese spoken in Brazil, while Brazilian Portuguese shows little influence of Japanese, beyond the L2 approximations to Portuguese produced by first-generation Japanese immigrants (Kanazawa and Loveday 1988: 430; Fuchs 1996). Lingering traces of Portuguese interference can be found in some Brazilian-Japanese communities (e.g., Fujiwara 2014; Gibo 2014; Ota 2009; Saiki 2013). Parlato-Oliveira et al. (2010) demonstrate that Japanese-Brazilian Portuguese bilinguals perceive illusory or “ghost” vowels /i/ or /u/ in non-permissible phonotactic sequences, in accordance with their degree of bilingualism.

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