lusophone_europe · Portugal

Portugal (Alentejo)

lusophone_europeintermediate

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Portugal · Alentejo

Alentejo's rural southern speech is slow and deliberate, with noticeably lengthened final syllables and vowels -- a much gentler delivery than Lisbon's clipped, reduced norm, even though the same underlying reduction and uvular R are present.

Slow, deliberate rural cadenceLengthened final syllables and vowelsHeavy unstressed-vowel reduction (shared with Lisbon)Uvular/guttural R

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Feature	Value	Drill
Languagelanguage	pt	Drill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languages	—	Drill
S Treatments_treatment	standard	Drill
D Intervocalicd_intervocalic	standard	Drill
D Finald_final	standard	Drill
R Infinitiver_infinitive	standard	Drill
Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_drop	none	Drill
Vowel Reductionvowel_reduction	crisp_open	Drill
Vowel Length Compensationvowel_length_compensation	Yes	Drill
Speech Ratespeech_rate	slow	Drill
Final Syllable Lengtheningfinal_syllable_lengthening	Yes	Drill
Vowel Nasalizationvowel_nasalization	phonemic	Drill
Mid Vowel Qualitymid_vowel_quality	reduced_unstressed	Drill
Coda S Palatalizationcoda_s_palatalization	Yes	Drill
R Guttural Strengthr_guttural_strength	moderate	Drill