Amazofonia or Nortista dialect is a dialect of Portuguese spoken by most people in Brazil's

Amazônia Legal Brazil's Legal Amazon (abbreviation BLA), in Portuguese Amazônia Legal (), is the largest socio-geographic division in Brazil, containing all nine states in the Amazon basin. The government designated this region in 1948 based on its studies o ...

region. It is spoken in 5 of the 7 Northern states:

Acre The acre ( ) is a Unit of measurement, unit of land area used in the Imperial units, British imperial and the United States customary units#Area, United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one Chain (unit), ch ...

Amapá Amapá (; ) is one of the 26 federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil. It is in the North Region, Brazil, North Region of Brazil. It is Federative units of Brazil#List, the second-least populous state and the eighteenth-largest state by area ...

, Amazonas,

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

(partially) and

Roraima Roraima ( ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil. Located in the country's North Region, it is the northernmost and most geographically and logistically isolated state in Brazil. It is bordered by the state of Pará to the southeast, Amazonas t ...

Variation

Amazofonia has multiple subdialects: *Traditional dialect: highly influenced by

European Portuguese European Portuguese (, ), also known as Lusitanian Portuguese () or as the Portuguese (language) of Portugal (), refers to the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal. The word "European" was chosen to avoid the clash of "Portugues ...

. Mainly spoken in Manaus (Amazonas) and Belém (Pará). *Cametaense: spoken in Cametá (Pará) and some regions of Marajó (Pará). *Metropolitano: spoken in the metropolitan regions of Manaus (Amazonas) and Belém (Pará). *Bragantino: spoken in Bragança (Pará), Capanema (Pará) and Capitão Poço (Pará). *Acreano: mainly influenced by

Camba Camba is a word historically used in Bolivia to refer to the indigenous population in the eastern tropical region of the country, or to those born in the area of Santa Cruz, Beni, and Pando. Nowadays, the term "Camba" is used predominantly t ...

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas **Spanish cuisine **Spanish history **Spanish culture ...

. Spoken in Brasiléia (Acre) and Plácido de Castro (Acre). *Amapaense or Oiapoquês: spoken in

. * Roraimense: spoken in

.Dialeto roraimense vai ganhar dicionário próprio com expressões típicas
Bom Dia Amazônia – RR. 2021.

General characteristics

* Preference for the pronoun over ( both meaning "you"), especially in

colloquial speech Colloquialism (also called ''colloquial language'', ''colloquial speech'', ''everyday language'', or ''general parlance'') is the linguistic style used for casual and informal communication. It is the most common form of speech in conversation amo ...

. is sometimes used in formal speech, depending on the speaker. *

Palatalization Palatalization may refer to: *Palatalization (phonetics), the phonetic feature of palatal secondary articulation *Palatalization (sound change) Palatalization ( ) is a historical-linguistic sound change that results in a palatalized articulati ...

of and to ʒ � �and ʃbefore � * Syllable-final and are both pronounced � * Unique vocabulary. For example: cunhã, carapanã, caba, muquira, etc.

References

{{Portuguese dialects Brazilian Portuguese Pará Amazonas (Brazilian state) Acre (state) Roraima Amapá

Variation

General characteristics

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