The Double Nature of Brazilian Portuguese: Daughter and Sister of European Portuguese

In this work, I explore the double nature of Brazilian Portuguese, or rather, I look at its unique position within the Portuguese language. In other words, I consider how, by undergoing a process of Creolization, Brazilian Portuguese boasts features that clearly bestow upon it the characteristics of a separate language altogether. Yet, by having undergone a decreolization process, Brazilian Portuguese cannot be regarded as a separate language, but rather, it should be viewed as a variant of Portuguese, albeit distant and on the cusp of one day (inevitably) falling into the category of “separate language.”