Carioca (pronunciation ) is a Portuguese adjective or demonym word that refers to the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. In Grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a Noun or Pronoun, giving more information about the A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place Rio de Janeiro ("River of January" ˈhiw dʒi ʒʌˈnejɾu in Brazilian Portuguese, /ˈriːoʊ di ʒəˈnɛroʊ/ in English is the second largest city of Brazil |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld The original word "Kara'i oca" comes from the indigenous Amerindian language of the Tupi people, meaning "White Man's House". The Tupi people is one of the main Ethnic groups of Brazilian indigenous people, together with the related Guaraní.
It is said that the first Portuguese dwellings in Rio de Janeiro were placed along a limpid stream, which soon got the Portuguese name "Carioca". The Portuguese people (os Portugueses literally the Portuguese) are the Ethnic group or Nation native to the country of Portugal, in the west A stream is a body of Water with a current, confined within a bed and stream-banks The last PNAD (National Research for Sample of Domiciles) census' numbers are: 6,278,704 million White people (53. According to the 2006 census White Brazilians make up 497% of Brazil's population or around 93 million people 6%), 3,935,904 million Pardo people (33. In Brazil, the Pardos are a mixture of Whites Blacks and Amerindians, varying from light to dark complexion as used by the Brazilian Institute 6%), 1,440,822 million Black people (12. Afro-Brazilian, or Black Brazilian, is the term used to racially categorize Brazilian citizens who are black or Multiracial 3%) and 58 thousand Asian or Amerindian people (0. An Asian Brazilian is a Brazilian born person of Asian ancestry The Indigenous peoples in Brazil ( Portuguese: povos indígenas) comprise a large number of distinct Ethnic groups who inhabited the country prior to 5%). [1] Cariocas, like other Brazilians, speak Portuguese.
According to a survey published in American Scientist Magazine, the Cariocas of Rio de Janeiro exhibited great friendliness and offered to help in various situations. A quote from the article mentioned pointed to the following : [2]
| “ | There is an important word in Brazil: simpático. (Actually it's a Greek origin word means sym-pathy "συμ-πάθεια" that you feel very concern (almost the same) about someone else's suffering). It refers to a range of desirable social qualities - to be friendly, nice, agreeable, and good-natured. A person who is fun to be with and pleasant to deal with. . . . Brazilians, especially the Cariocas of Rio (as citizens here are known), want very much to be seen as simpático. And going out of one's way to assist strangers is part of this image. | ” |
In contrast, the demonym meaning for the state of Rio de Janeiro is fluminense, taken from the Latin word "flumen", meaning "River". Rio de Janeiro ( pron ˈhiu dʒi ʒʌˈnejɾu) is one of the 26 states of Brazil. Fluminense Football Club is a Sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.
Dialect
The variety of Brazilian Portuguese language spoken either in the city or state of Rio de Janeiro is also called "Carioca" or "Fluminense". Brazilian Portuguese ( Language code pt-BR Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil) is a group of Portuguese In written form, the carioca dialect follows the standard Brazilian Portuguese influence. The carioca speech, on the other hand, has several distinctive traits, such as in the pronunciation of "s" and "r" before a consonant: "s" is pronounced like "sh" and "r" is aspirate, like "h" in English, and also the strong palatization of the syllables "ti","di", "te" and "de".
As for grammar, an important difference is the mixing of the second person pronoun "você" and the obliquous pronoun "te" in the same speech, while standard Portuguese requires "lhe" as obliquous for "você", and "te" as obliquous for "tu". An oblique case (casus generalis in Linguistics is a Noun case of Synthetic languages that is used generally when a Noun is the object
References
- ^ (2007) Síntese de Indicadores Sociais 2007 (PDF) (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: IBGE. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Gehjgygmmliografia e Estatística is the agency responsible for Statistical ISBN 85-240-3919-1. Retrieved on 2007-07-18. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 390 BC - Roman - Gaulish Wars Battle of the Allia - a Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls,
- ^ Can't Find A Good Samaritan, Don't Blame It On Rio. csmonitor. com. Retrieved on 2007-04-07. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor
See also
Caipira ( (in English " Hillbilly " or "country people" is a Brazilian Portuguese term used to designate inhabitants of rural remote areas of Gaucho ( gaúcho in Portuguese, "gaucho" in Spanish) is a term commonly used to describe residents of the South American PampasDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic