Estremenho is a dialect of

European Portuguese European Portuguese ( pt, português europeu, ), also known as Portuguese of Portugal ( Portuguese: português de Portugal), Iberian Portuguese ( Portuguese: português ibérico), and Peninsular Portuguese ( Portuguese: português peninsular), re ...

spoken in the former

provinces A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outsi ...

of Estremadura and

Beira Litoral Beira Litoral is a former province (''província'') of Portugal, formally instituted in an administrative reform of 1936. It was abolished with the 1976 Constitution of Portugal. The province was bordered on the north by Douro Litoral Province, ...

and is part of the central-southern dialects. The variety of Lisbon, which is used to form the basis for the pattern of

, is within this dialect.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 n
Biblioteca Nacional Digital

Characteristics

The Estremenhan dialects present the following characteristics: *A generalized monophthongization of the

diphthong A diphthong ( ; , ), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is, the tongue (and/or other parts of the speech ...

w 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 joccurs. For example, "manêra" instead of "maneira" (manner), although this has evolved into �jin the Lisbon dialect ("manâira"). *The predorsodental

sibilants Sibilants are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth. Examples of sibilants are the consonants at the beginning of the English words ''sip'', ''zip'', ''ship'', and ...

, 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

External links

Sound recordings of the dialectNew proposal for the classification of Galician-Portuguese dialects
by Luís Lindley Cintra
Portuguese dialects
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