North coast Portuguese explained
| North coast dialect |
| Nativename: | Dialeto da costa norte |
| Pronunciation: | pronounced as /pt/ |
| States: | North and northwest of Ceará, north of Piauí and northeast of Maranhão |
| Speakers: | 8.5 million |
| Date: | no date |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Fam2: | Italic |
| Fam3: | Latin |
| Fam4: | Romance |
| Fam5: | Western |
| Fam6: | Ibero-Romance |
| Fam7: | West Iberian |
| Fam8: | Galician-Portuguese |
| Fam9: | Portuguese |
| Fam10: | Vernacular Brazilian |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Lingua: | 51-AAA-am |
| Glotto: | none |
| Notice: | IPA |
North coast dialect (Portuguese: dialeto da costa norte, pronounced as /pt/), also called Cearense dialect, is a dialect of Portuguese in the Brazilian state of Ceará, having many internal variations, like in the regions Jaguaribe and Sertões (back-countries).
Main characteristics
- Preference for the pronoun Portuguese: tu instead of Portuguese: você (both meaning "you"), without distinction of formal and informal speech.[1]
- Opening of pre-tonic vowels pronounced as /[e]/ and pronounced as /[o]/ to pronounced as /[ɛ]/ and pronounced as /[ɔ]/, but always obeying a rule of vowel harmony.[2] [3]
- Lenition of pronounced as /[ʎ]/ and pronounced as /[ɲ]/ to pronounced as /[j]/, and reduction of syllables that have these phonemes, represented in Portuguese by (lh) and (nh) respectively.[4]
- Stronger or low "r" sound, depending on their syllabic position (generally strong at the beginning and middle of words, and weak final syllables). Word-finally it is not pronounced.
- Heightening of pronounced as /[e, ẽ]/ to pronounced as /[i, ĩ]/ and pronounced as /[o, õ]/ to pronounced as /[u, ũ]/.
- Palatalization of fricatives pronounced as /[s, z]/ to pronounced as /[ʃ, ʒ]/ when adjacent to letters (t) or (d).
- In Fortaleza and metropolitan area, Ceará North and Ceará Northeast, and close hinterland regions, this group there palatalization phonetic, getting affricates to [d͡ʒi] and [t͡ʃi].
- Stronger "r" is realised as pronounced as /[ɦ]/, and also debuccalization of phonemes pronounced as /[ʒ, v, z]/ to pronounced as /[ɦ]/.[5]
- Unique vocabulary is present in this dialect, leading many authors to write books of various dictionaries of such expressions.[6] This, perhaps, is symbolic of the people of Ceará, with their antics and humor. Examples: Portuguese: marminino (indicates surprise or astonishment, admiration), Portuguese: abirobado (something that is crazy).[7] [8]
Notes and References
- Freire . Gilson Costa . A realização do acusativo e do dativo anafóricos de terceira pessoa na escrita brasileira e lusitana . 2005 . doctoral . Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . pt.
- Lee . Seung Hwa . 2006 . Sobre as vogais pré-tônicas no Português Brasileiro . About Pre-Tonic Vowels in Brazilian Portuguese . Estudos Lingüísticos . pt . XXXV . 166–175 . 23 April 2012.
- Lee . Seung-Hwa . Oliveira . Marco A. de . . Variação inter-e intra-dialetal no português brasileiro: um problema para a teoria fonológica . dead . . pt . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014222541/http://www.ich.pucminas.br/posletras/Producao%20docente/Marco%20Antonio/Variacao%20Inter-%20e%20Intra-Dialetal%20no%20Portugues%20Brasileiro_2005.pdf . 14 October 2013 . 23 April 2012 . www.ich.pucminas.br.
- Web site: Aragão . Maria do Socorro Silva de . A despalatalização e conseqüente iotização no falar de Fortaleza . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111101023330/http://www.profala.ufc.br/Trabalho1.pdf . 1 November 2011 . 23 April 2012 . pt . profala.ufc.br.
- Web site: Aragão . Maria do Socorro Silva de . A neutralização dos fonemas /v – z - Ζ/ no falar de Fortaleza. . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222645/http://www.profala.ufc.br/Trabalho3.pdf . 3 March 2016 . 23 April 2012 . pt . profala.ufc.br.
- Monteiro . José Lemos . 1995 . Fontes bibliográficas para o estudo do dialeto cearense . Revista da Academia Cearense da Língua Portuguesa . 9 . 68–94.
- Web site: Avexado Dicionário Cearês. https://web.archive.org/web/20090118211046/http://dicionarioceares.vilabol.uol.com.br/ca.html. 18 January 2009. 23 April 2012.
- Web site: Dicionário Cearês Girias Ceará ABC Cearense. https://web.archive.org/web/20081201162819/http://dicionarioceares.vilabol.uol.com.br/. 1 December 2008. dicionarioceares.vilabol.uol.com.br. 23 April 2012.
