Mutual Comprehensibility, Reconvergence

[Barbara Need]

Something called Portunol (tilde over the n). I don't have any references
and don't remember very many details, but a friend of mine is from Uruguay
and did a paper on Portunol for our class on diglossia.

Barbara Need
University of Chicago--Linguistics

>        It used to be that, as far as I knew, the situation in the Danelaw
>areas of England, where two dialects but recently separated began (in my
>opinion) to reconverge, was unique.  However it has recently come to my
>attention that a similar situation developed between Spanish and Portugese
>in northern Uruguay, which is to say on the border with Brazil.  Is there
>anyone out there who can tell me what the results of this were, without
>demanding that I read Spanish?  (I suppose I could, but being lazy would
>rather not.)

>                                                    Dr. David L. White