Southern African Portuguese [PTSA]
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[view flag info] Southern African Portuguese
Português africano meridional [poɾtugɘʃ ɐfɾicɐno meɾɨdionɐl]*
[view flag info] Southern African Portuguese
Português africano meridional [poɾtugɘʃ ɐfɾicɐno meɾɨdionɐl]*
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Southern African Portuguese
The Southern African Portuguese is a dialect of the Portuguese language spoken in Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
The sub-dialects of Southern African Portuguese have absorbed influences from local languages in vocabulary and phonology.
The sub-dialects of Southern African Portuguese have absorbed influences from local languages in vocabulary and phonology.
Sample of Southern African Portuguese[view] Eu falo Português Africano Meridional
I speak English[view all texts]
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Language family relationships
Language treeItalic
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin
⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
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Portuguese
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Southern African Portuguese
⤷ Italic
⤷ Latino-Faliscan
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Latin⤷ Vulgar Latin
⤷ Western Romance
⤷ Iberian
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Portuguese⤷
Southern African PortuguesePhonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | k | g | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ɕ | ç | ||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ʎ | ||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | u ũ | |||
| Close-mid | e | ɘ | o õ | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||||
| Near-open | ɐ ɐ̃ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Southern African Portuguese. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Southern African PortugueseOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/ɐ/ | Bb/b/ | Cc/c/ | Çç/ç/ | CH ch/ɕ/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Ii/i/ |
| Jj/ʒ/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | LH lh/ʎ/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NH nh/ɲ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/k/ |
| Rr/ɾ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ʃ/ | Yy/j/ | Zz/z/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
