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I will admit, however, that the buzzings and nasal vowels of French and Portuguese are sad examples of the degeneration of the noble Latin phonology.

What is interesting with Portuguese and French, though, is that if you hear the way they are spoken in Brasil(Portuguese), for example, and in Kinshasa - D.R. Congo - (French) you may observe that these "transformations", all from the original countries (Portugal and France) have taken the edge off of some of those "buzzings and nasal vowels".

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