| Gaúcho dialect | |
| Map: | Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.svg |
| Mapcaption: | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Nativename: | Portuguese: Gaúcho / Gauchês / Guasca |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Fam2: | Italic |
| Fam3: | Latin |
| Fam4: | Romance |
| Fam5: | Western Romance |
| Fam6: | Ibero-Romance |
| Fam7: | West-Iberian |
| Fam8: | Galician-Portuguese |
| Fam9: | Portuguese |
| Fam10: | Brazilian Portuguese |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Notice: | IPA |
| Ietf: | pt-u-sd-brrs |
Gaúcho (pronounced as /pt/), more rarely called Portuguese: Sulriograndense, is the Brazilian Portuguese term for the characteristic accent spoken in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, including its capital, Porto Alegre. It is heavily influenced by Spanish and somewhat influenced by Guarani, Hunsrückisch, Venetian and other native languages.
Its phonology is heavily similar to Rioplatense Spanish, including its characteristics of the speaking syllabic rhythm, use of L-vocalization in the syllable coda, and little use of nasal vowels, basically restricted to the monophthong pronounced as //ɐ̃// and the diphthongs pronounced as //ɐ̃w̃, õj̃//.
In the western and some central varieties there is the absence of vowel reduction with word-final (e) and (o) (for example, Portuguese: leite is pronounced as //ˈlejte// instead of pronounced as //ˈlejt(ʃ)i// and Portuguese: tudo is pronounced as //ˈtu.do// instead of pronounced as //ˈtu.du//). In some other cities of the region, the nasal monophthong pronounced as //ɐ̃// is heightened to pronounced as //ə̃//, and in the metropolitan region final pronounced as //ɐ// may be realised as pronounced as //ə//.
The "hard" rhotic usually registers in western varieties as [r] medially and [ʁ] initially or following pronounced as //l/, /s/, /n/ or /m//. In eastern varieties /ʁ/ has lenitioned into pronounced as //ɦ/, /h/ or /x// and /r/ is not found.
The "soft" rhotic tends to register as either a short trill or [ɾ]. Although finally in eastern varieties, due to influence from Paulistano, it is sometimes realised as [ɹ].
Grammatically, one of its most notable features is the use of, instead of, with the verb conjugating differently: e.g. Portuguese: tu corre and Portuguese: tu lava instead of Portuguese: *tu corres and Portuguese: *tu lavas. However, use of the standard você is also not rare. The same feature also occurs in other dialects of Brazilian Portuguese.
| Gaúcho | Standard Brazilian Portuguese | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese: aspa|italic=unset | Portuguese: chifre|italic=unset | horn | |
| Portuguese: avio|italic=unset | Portuguese: isqueiro|italic=unset | lighter | |
| Portuguese: bá!|italic=unset | Portuguese: puxa!|italic=unset, Portuguese: nossa!|italic=unset | exclamation of surprise | |
| Portuguese: bagual|italic=unset | Portuguese: excelente|italic=unset, Portuguese: ótimo|italic=unset | excellent, very good | |
| Portuguese: bergamota|italic=unset | Portuguese: tangerina|italic=unset, Portuguese: mexerica|italic=unset | tangerine | |
| Portuguese: bodoque|italic=unset | Portuguese: estilingue|italic=unset | slingshot | |
| Portuguese: campear|italic=unset | Portuguese: procurar|italic=unset | to look for | |
| Portuguese: chavear|italic=unset | Portuguese: trancar|italic=unset | to lock | |
| Portuguese: chimia|italic=unset | Portuguese: geleia|italic=unset | jam | |
| Portuguese: cusco|italic=unset | Portuguese: cachorro|italic=unset, Portuguese: cão|italic=unset | dog | |
| Portuguese: fatiota|italic=unset | Portuguese: terno|italic=unset | suit (noun) | |
| Portuguese: inticar|italic=unset | Portuguese: provocar|italic=unset | to provoke | |
| Portuguese: remolacha|italic=unset | Portuguese: beterraba|italic=unset | beetroot | |
| Portuguese: [[Che (interjection)|tchê!]]|italic=unset | Portuguese: cacilda!|italic=unset, Portuguese: caramba!|italic=unset | sentence intensifier or you (i.e. "Hey, you *name*") | |
| Portuguese: terneiro|italic=unset | Portuguese: bezerro|italic=unset | calf | |
| Portuguese: tri|italic=unset | Portuguese: legal|italic=unset, Portuguese: bacana|italic=unset | nice, cool | |
| Portuguese: vivente|italic=unset | Portuguese: ser|italic=unset, Portuguese: pessoa|italic=unset | living being | |
| Portuguese: a la pucha!|italic=unset | praises what was heard[1] [2] | ||
| Portuguese: [[:wikt:pt:querência|querência]]|italic=unset | Portuguese: pátria|italic=unset | fatherland, homeland |
The Gaúcho dialect ranges in features as the western variations have stronger influence from Rioplatense Spanish and the eastern, especially the ones spoken in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre, stronger influence of the Paulistano dialect, resulting in differing features depending on the region the dialect is spoken.