Published: 2020-09-01

Poles on the antipodes. Selected historical and language aspects of Polish presence in Brazil

Alicja Goczyła Ferreira Logo ORCID

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present some aspects concerning the presence of Poles and their descendants in Brazil. It resulted from the emigration of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The representatives of the so-called ‘old emigration’, mostly illiterate peasants, settled down in isolated colonies, devoting themselves to farming. Their social position and conditions of living enabled the maintenance of Polish culture and language. This language contains archaic and regional elements. It was influenced by the languages of the partitioners of Poland first, and later by the Portuguese language.

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Goczyła Ferreira, A. (2020). Poles on the antipodes. Selected historical and language aspects of Polish presence in Brazil. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 21(1), 173–186. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/9735

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2018)
Published: 2020-09-03


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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