Lusitanity

Arrival at this dense and archaic magma, beneath recent signification and the subtle song that sculpts it, magnifies all singularities – the Frenchness of French, the Lusitanity of Portuguese, the mass of Latin in the Romance languages – but also opens onto the shadow-mouth from which Ur-Musik emerges.

2009, The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age, page 265

This embryo of Portuguese-based Lingua Franca’s contact with other Romance languages (mainly Spanish and Italo-Romance) could have attenuated the Lusitanity of that language since it served not only for the communication between Christians and Muslims, but also for the language intercourse between Christians that came from various places of Romania.

2014, Cyril Aslanov, “Lingua Franca in the Western Mediterranean: between myth and reality”, in Congruence in Contact-Induced Language Change, page 131

In the case of Luso-tropical peoples this is a unique thing that happens [...]: they are still Luso when they become aware of their condition as extra-European peoples, with a new type of civilization in development. Brazil, already a great nation in the Americas since the end of the First World War, has begun to be the first mainly tropical power that does not feel the need to stop being Lusitanian in its main forms of co-existence and culture. On the contrary: [Brazil] makes a gala of its Lusitanity, one which does not compromise the condition of a creative and actively extra-European people; and it is not just a passive footman of Paris or London; Lisbon or Madrid.

2024, Filhos da Terra: Mestizos Identities at the Margins, page 101