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| Fluminense Portuguese | |
|---|---|
| Dialeto Fluminense | |
| Pronunciation | d͡ʒjɐˈlɛtu flumiˈnẽsi |
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo |
| Ethnicity | Flumineses |
Native speakers | c. 9 million (2022) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
 Approximate range of the dialect over a map of Brazil. | |
Fluminense, also known as Flu-Capixaba, is a dialect of Portuguese spoken in most of the Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo, as well as parts of southeastern Minas Gerais.[1][2] It is considered to be one of the closest Brazilian Portuguese dialects to the variations of the language spoken in Portugal.[2]
The dialect is notorious for the presence of vowel reduction of /e/ and /o/ into /i/ and /u/, stress timing, the palatalization of /s/ and /z/ in the end of syllables into /ʒ/ or /ʃ/ and the abundance of diphtongs and palatal fricative phonemes, which differentiates it from the Carioca dialect, the closest variation of Portuguese to Fluminense.[3][2] Fluminense speakers tend to substitute the /ɾ/ sound in the end of words for /ʁ/.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ A modernidade da língua: o dialeto do Sudeste. Revista Linguagem Contemporânea. 15 de junho de 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 Falas fluminense/capixaba e o carioca: quais são as diferenças entre elas? O Ham-Let. 26 de maio de 2007.
- ↑ ^ a b Parkinson, Stephen. "Phonology". In The Romance Languages edited by Martin Harris and Nigel Vincent. Routledge, 1988. Pp. 131–169.