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Portugal

Home to 4 dialects represented on Dialect Atlas, spanning 2 language families.

Romani dialects in Portugal

Caló

also: Iberian Romani, Zincaló, Caló Romani

The Iberian para-Romani variety spoken by the Calé (Gitanos) of Spain and, in related forms, Portugal and southern France. A Romani-derived lexicon is embedded in a Castilian (or Catalan/Portuguese) grammatical frame; the older inflected Iberian Romani is no longer spoken. Caló vocabulary has left a marked imprint on Andalusian Spanish and flamenco.

Portuguese dialects in Portugal

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European Portuguese

also: Portuguese (Portugal), Lisbon Portuguese

The standard variety of Portugal, centred on Lisbon. Distinguished from Brazilian Portuguese by reduced unstressed vowels and a denser consonant cluster system.

Northern Portuguese

also: Portuense, Norte de Portugal

The Portuguese of the north of Portugal around Porto. Preserves several older features lost in the standard, including the bilabial /β/ and the betacism that distinguishes <b> from <v>.

Azorean Portuguese

also: Açoriano

The Portuguese of the Azores archipelago. Highly distinctive vowels and a strong island-by-island variation, often cited as one of the more divergent European varieties.