Servando Rodríguez. (San Jorge de Alor). Portugués de Olivenza (II)

Exemplos de mudança linguística. O informante conta como um dia na sua aldeia ficaram surpreendidos ao ouvir uma criança falar português, porque tinham interiorizado que era a língua dos mais velhos. The tendency to linguistic shift is widespread.

It has sometimes been seen in the love relationships of the generations before the informant, where it was common for a speaker of Portuguese to change language when starting another relationship. Examples of linguistic change. The informant recounts how one day in his village they were astonished to hear a child speak Portuguese, because they had internalised that it was the language of the elders.