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Re:The enigmatic Portuguese R (2013) by wenc on Friday January 14, 2022 @06:00PM (#29941694)
It’s because Pt-Pt is a stressed timed language vs Br-Pt which is a syllable timed language.

Pt-Pt drops a lot of unstressed vowels whereas Br-Pt almost all syllables are pronounced.

Langfocus did a video on why (European) Português sounds like Russian.

https://youtu.be/Pik2R46xobA

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