European Portuguese

European Portuguese
European Portuguese
Português europeu
Native to	Portugal
Native speakers	40 million (2012)
Language family	Indo-European Italic Romance Western Romance Ibero-Romance West-Iberian Galician-Portuguese Portuguese European Portuguese; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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European Portuguese (Portuguese: [português europeu] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), pronounced: [puɾtuˈɣez ewɾuˈpew]) also known as Portuguese of Portugal (Portuguese: português de Portugal), Iberian Portuguese (Portuguese: português ibérico), Peninsular Portuguese (Portuguese: português peninsular) is a dialect of Portuguese language spoken in Portugal.

Sara, a speaker of European Portuguese

Phonology

Oral vowels
	Front	Central	Back
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Open		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.

Nasal vowels
	Front	Central	Back
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Mid	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.
Open		Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:IPA symbol/data' not found.

Oral diphthongs
		Endpoint
		/j/	/w/
Start point	/a/	aj	aw
	/ɐ/	ɐj	ɐw
	/ɛ/	ɛj	ɛw
	/e/	ej	ew
	/i/		iw
	/ɔ/	ɔj
	/o/	oj	ow
	/u/	uj

Nasal diphthongs
		Endpoint
		/j̃/	/w̃/
Start point	/ɐ̃/	ɐ̃j̃	ɐ̃w̃
	/ẽ/	ẽj̃
	/õ/	õj̃
	/ũ/	ũj̃

References

↑ Portuguese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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[1] Portuguese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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