Draft:Algarvian Portuguese

Algarvian Portuguese
Native to	Portugal
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Romance Italo-Western Western Romance Gallo-Iberian Iberian Romance West Iberian Galician–Portuguese Portuguese Algarvian Portuguese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Algarvian Portuguese (Portuguese: português algarvio) is a dialect of Portuguese spoken in the Portuguese region of Algarve

Characteristics

Most of the features of Algarvian are shared with Alentejan:

• The diphthong /ou̯/ is monophthongized to [o]:

sou /ˈsou̯/ > [so] 'I am'

• The diphthong /ei̯/ is monophthongized to [e], except before other vowels, when in the last syllable of a word, or generally before /t/:

maneira /mɐˈnei̯ɾɐ/ > [mɐˈneɾɐ] 'way'

areia /ɐˈɾei̯ɐ/ > [ɐˈɾei̯ɐ] 'sand'

seis /sei̯ʃ/ > [sei̯ʃ] 'six'

• The diphthong /ai̯/ is monophthongized to [a] before "x" (/ʃ/):

caixa /ˈkai̯ʃɐ/ > [ˈkaʃɐ] 'box'

• /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/ are always pronounced as stops and not as fricatives:

manteiga /mɐ̃ˈtei̯ɡɐ/ > [mɐ̃ˈteɡɐ] 'butter'

idade /iˈdadɨ/ > [iˈdad] 'age'

abrir /ɐˈbɾiɾ/ > [ɐˈbɾiɾ] 'to open'

• Function words that contain diphthongs have untressed varieties where the diphthongs are monophthongized, losing the second element:

eu sei /eu̯ ˈsei̯/ > [e ˈsei̯] 'I know'

não sei /nɐ̃ũ̯ ˈsei̯/ > [nɐ̃ ˈsei̯] 'I don't know'

o meu pai /u meu̯ ˈpai̯/ > [u me ˈpai̯] 'my father'

Features secific to Algarvian:

• Final unstressed "-o" is eliminated.

tudo /ˈtudu/ > [ˈtud] 'all, averything'

• Final "s", "z" are pronounced [ʒ] when followed by a vowel, instead of [z]:

os olhos /uʃˈɔʎuʃ/ > [uʒˈɔʎʃ] 'the eyes'

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