GRAFIA DAWNYCH CZASOPISM POLONII BRAZYLIJSKIEJ (NA PRZYKŁADZIE „GAZETY POLSKIEJ W BRAZYLII”)
Spelling in old journals published by the Polish community in Brazil (on the example of „Gazeta Polska w Brazylii” („Polish Paper in Brazil”))

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the problem of spelling in the press published by the Polish community in Brazil and the infl uence the Brazilian Portuguese spelling has exerted on it. The material basis is more than 100 issues of „Gazeta Polska w Brazylii” („Polish Paper in Brazil”) of 1893–1911. Relying on the collected data, numerous spelling features proving the impact of Portuguese spelling were recorded in the weekly, e.g.: applying Portuguese diacritics, employing letters and diacritics absent from standard Polish, using letters such as k and c, s and z in a hesitant manner, as well as doubling certain letters (like in Portuguese words, e.g. processya under the infl uence of Port. procissão), failing to standardise the use of capital letters. What results from the analysis of the material is that spelling in journals published by Polish communities abroad – in isolation from the spelling of general Polish and under the infl uence of the graphic system of Portuguese – has undergone signifi cant changes.

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