Barranquenho
| Barranquenho | |
|---|---|
| Barranquian | |
| Native to | Portugal |
| Region | Barrancos |
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Native speakers
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(undated figure of 1,500)[1] |
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Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
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Linguist list
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1oy |
| Glottolog | None |
Barranquenho (Barranquenhu; English: Barranquian[2]), is a Romance linguistic variety spoken in the Portuguese town of Barrancos, near the Spanish border. It can be considered a variety of Portuguese (Alentejan Portuguese) heavily influenced by the dialects of neighbouring areas in Spain in Extremadura and Andalusia (especially those from Encinasola and Rosal de la Frontera),[3] or a Spanish dialect (Extremaduran / Andalusian) heavily influenced by Portuguese.
Barranquian is intelligible to speakers of either Standard Portuguese or Standard Spanish. Barranquian speakers say that they speak neither Spanish nor Portuguese but a third language. Ethnologue lists Barranquian as a dialect of Extremaduran, perhaps because Barrancos was populated by settlers from Badajoz, in Extremaduran territory.[4]
The development of Barranquenho seems to be relatively recent (in the past 200 years) unlike other minority linguistic varieties in the Iberian Peninsula, which have medieval roots.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Extremaduran (Portugal) at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Ethnologue report for Portugal
- ^ José Leite de Vasconcelos, Filologia Barranquenha - apontamentos para o seu estudo, 1940.
- ^ José Ignacio Hualde, Antxon Olarrea, Erin O'Rourke (2012) The Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, p. 60
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