creole_border · Uruguay
Uruguay-Brazil Border (Portuñol Riverense / DPU)
Reference-quality preset: a phonetic matrix and a short blurb, not a full flagship build-out. See a flagship variety (Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama) for situations, cultural context, sayings, and a guided path.
Uruguay · Rivera-Santana do Livramento
Along the Uruguay-Brazil border, generations of bilingual contact produced DPU (Dialectos Portugueses del Uruguay), popularly called 'Portuñol Riverense' after the twin cities of Rivera and Santana do Livramento. It is not code-switching between two separate languages but a genuinely mixed, rule-governed variety with its own stable phonology -- Portuguese-style nasal vowels and final-vowel raising riding on a largely Spanish-derived lexicon, a real showcase for Familect's mix-and-match premise.
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Active features
Every phonetic parameter that deviates from this schema’s diffing anchor, with a plain-English gloss.
| Feature | Value | Meaning | Drill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languagelanguage | mixed | Drill | |
| Mixed Languagesmixed_languages | — | Drill | |
| D Intervocalicd_intervocalic | standard | Drill | |
| R Infinitiver_infinitive | standard | Drill | |
| N Final Velarizationn_final_velarization | No | Drill | |
| Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_drop | none | Drill | |
| Vowel Nasalizationvowel_nasalization | phonemic | Drill | |
| Mid Vowel Qualitymid_vowel_quality | seven_vowel_open_close | Drill | |
| R Guttural Strengthr_guttural_strength | moderate | Drill | |
| Final Vowel Raisingfinal_vowel_raising | Yes | Drill |