Estremenho dialect
From left to right, the old provinces of Beira Litoral and Estremadura, now extinct.
Estremenho is a dialect of the European Portuguese spoken in the former provinces of Estremadura and Beira Litoral and is part of the central-southern dialects.[1]
The variety of Lisbon, which is used to form the basis for the pattern of European Portuguese, is within this dialect.[2]
Characteristics
The Estremenhan dialects present the following characteristics:[1]
- A generalized monophthongization of the diphthong [ow]. For example, "touro" (bull) and "roupa" (clothes) passes to "tôro" and "rôpa".
- In certain subregions, such as saloia (the outskirts of Lisbon), a monophthongization of the diphthong [ej] occurs. For example, "manêra" instead of "maneira" (manner), although this has evolved into [ɐj] in the Lisbon dialect ("manâira").
- The predorsodental sibilants, that is, /s/ and /z/, are pronounced as in the European pattern and are well distinguished from the lower x and the j, contrary to what happens with the northern dialects.
References
- ^ a b "O dialecto estremenho" (in Portuguese). Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
- ^ VIANNA, Aniceto dos Reis Gonçalves (1892): Exposição da pronuncia normal portuguesa para uso de nacionais e estrangeiros, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional (Memória apresentada na 10ª Sessão do Congresso Internacional dos Orientalistas), reimpresso in Estudos de fonética portuguesa, Lisboa : Imprensa Nacional /Casa da Moeda, 1973, pp. 153 - 257; disponível online na Biblioteca Nacional Digital.
External links
- Sound recordings of the dialect
- New proposal for the classification of Galician-Portuguese dialects by Luís Lindley Cintra (in Portuguese)
- Portuguese dialects (in Portuguese)
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