Remove ads
Amazofonia or Nortista dialect is a dialect of Portuguese spoken by most people in Brazil's Amazônia Legal region.[1] It's spoken in 5 of the 7 Northern states: Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará (partially) and Roraima.[2]
Amazofonia has multiple subdialects:
- Traditional dialect: highly influenced by European Portuguese. Mainly spoken in Manaus (Amazonas) and Belém (Pará).[3]
- Cametaense: spoken in Cametá (Pará) and some regions of Marajó (Pará).[2][4][5]
- Metropolitano: spoken in the metropolitan regions of Manaus (Amazonas) and Belém (Pará).[2][6]
- Bragantino: spoken in Bragança (Pará), Capanema (Pará) and Capitão Poço (Pará).[2]
- Acreano: mainly influenced by Camba Spanish. Spoken in Brasiléia (Acre) and Plácido de Castro (Acre).[7][8]
- Amapaense or Oiapoquês: spoken in Amapá.[9]
- Roraimense: spoken in Roraima.[10]
Remove ads
- Preference for the pronoun tu over você (both meaning "you"), especially in colloquial speech. Você is sometimes used in formal speech, depending on the speaker.
- Palatalization of [d], [l], [n] and [t] to [dʒ], [ʎ], [ɲ] and [tʃ] before [i], [ĩ].
- Syllable-final [s] and [z] are both pronounced [ʃ].
- Unique vocabulary. For example: cunhã, carapanã, caba, muquira, etc.
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
Remove ads