3.2.a. Portugal
The region in which northern and southern-central Portuguese is
spoken stretches all the way from the north-east to the south-east of
Portugal. It should be noted however that certain regions have their
own peculiar set of pronunciations, most notably in the northern
region that takes in part of Minho and the Douro seaside, in the west
of the Algarve that also forms a part of the central-south and across
an extensive area mostly in the central-south of Beira-Baixa and the
Alto-Alentejo.
The dialects spoken in the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira
can be considered as southern extensions of the continental Portuguese
dialects from the southern-central group. The dialects spoken on the
islands of São Miguel and Madeira however are the only exceptions
where, independently of each other, both have differentiated
themselves from the southern-central dialectical group with the
development of a certain number of local peculiarities, some of which
can be found on mainland Europe.
|
