3.2. Portuguese in Europe
On the western side of the Iberian Peninsula, where
Galician-Portuguese was formerly spoken, Galician and Portuguese are
currently the primary languages of the area. This area forms a
collection of dialects that, depending on certain phonetic
characteristics, principally in the pronunciation of the sibilants in
words such as roSa (rose) and paSSo
(step), or in Cinco (five) and Seis
(six), can be separated into the following three large linguistic
groups:
- Galician dialects;
G - Western Galician
F - Eastern Galician
- Northern Portuguese dialects; and
E - Dialects from Trás-os-Montes and
Alto-Minho
C - Dialects from Baixo-Minho,
Durão and Beira
- Central-Southern Portuguese dialects.
D - Dialects of the central coast
B - Dialects of the central interior and
of the south
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A - Limits of sub-dialectal zone
with very differentiated specific characteristics.
Index
- 3.2.a. Portugal
- 3.2.b. Galician
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