Estremenho dialect

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]

This article is about the Portuguese dialect. It is not to be confused with Extremaduran, a language of western Spain.
Dialects of Portugal.
From left to right, the old provinces of Beira Litoral and Estremadura, now extinct.

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.
gollark: <@356107472269869058> No.
gollark: "Human computer"? Is that where you trick people into executing instructions for you?
gollark: But I have to !!manually-ish!! manage memory!
gollark: I prefer higher level stuff, although it may be the least bad available one now.
gollark: This is fairly troubling. I want to produce a game of some kind, ideally to run on the web (this isn't a big constraint nowadays given WASM). Unfortunately there are about 0 languages I like enough to use for this‽

References
  1. "O dialecto estremenho" (in Portuguese). Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa. Retrieved 22 November 2010.
  2. 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.


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