Hieronim Durski (ojciec szkolnictwa polskiego w Brazylii) i jego Elementarz dla Polskich Szkół w Brazylii w języku polskim i portugalskim
Hieronim Durski (the father of the Polish school system in Brazil) and his book Elementarz dla Polskich Szkół w Brazylii w języku polskim i portugalskim

Summary/Abstract: The available literature lacks detailed and reliable account of the origins of teaching Polish and publishing Polish schoolbooks in Brazil. Hieronim Durski’s book Elementarz… is the first and only bilingual (Polish and Portuguese) textbook written specifically for Brazilian schools. It is an extraordinary work, since it documents a language that no longer exists and attests to archaic forms both in Polish and Portuguese. The analysis of vocabulary from the textbook reveals that as early as towards the end of the 19th century many words of Portuguese origin have penetrated the Polish language in Brazil. Other interferences (semantic or syntactic) have also occurred. The study employs a contrastive method, i.e., establishing a set of contrastive features for the two bases (Polish along with it variants and the Brazilian Portuguese variant).

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