Portuguese-Japanese language contact in 16th Century Japan

要旨

"The aim of this paper is twofold. The first section of thepaper outlines the three different stages of Portuguese-Japaneselanguage contact. The first took place in 16th and 17th centuries,due to the arrival of the Portuguese in Japan; the second was theresult of Japanese immigration to Brazil in the beginning of the20th century; finally, the present one is the consequence of thereturn to Japan of many descendents of those immigrants. In thisarticle it is emphasized that in every stages the lexical borrowingwas not a one-way phenomenon, although the intensity was notthe same in both directions. The second section revisits the firststage to discuss a number of issues related to the etymology of thePortuguese word bonzo."

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