ARAMAIC INFLUENCE ON PORTUGUESE? Yep.

Book on Oriental influence on the Portuguese language to be released again
(Brazil-Arab News Agency)

The book 'Oriental Influences on the Portuguese Language', by Miguel Nimer, was reedited by his nephew, Carlos Augusto Calil, and is due to be re-launched next Tuesday, in São Paulo. The book talks about the inheritance from oriental languages like the Arabic, Aramaic, Persian and Turkish in Portuguese. Nimer, who has already passed away, was the son of Lebanese immigrants.