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Northern Portuguese
is the oldest dialect of the
Portuguese language
. It is spoken in coastal northern
Portugal
from
Viana do Castelo
to
Porto
and stretching inland as far as
Vila Real
. The region is considered the birthplace of the Portuguese language. It is popularly known as
Nortenho
("Northerner"), but linguists traditionally call it
Interamnico
or
Interamense
to differentiate it from other dialects spoken inland in northern Portugal.
The dialects of Northern Portuguese constitute one of the major groupings of the Portuguese language. There are two subdialects: Porto?Povoa and Braga?Viana. Each of these subdialects is further divided into Porto,
Povoa
,
Braga
, and Viana. Every accent in the region is derived from the accents in these four hubs.
The dialectal map of
Leite de Vasconcelos
(1893?1897) proposed that the Northern Portuguese had three subdialects:
[1]
- Alto-minhoto
(between
Minho
and
Lima
rivers);
- Baixo-minhoto
(between Lima and
Douro
rivers), that included the variety of Porto and the variety of Povoa;
- Baixo-duriense
(between
Tamega
and
Corgo
rivers).
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