European Portuguese

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European Portuguese is the variety of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal, characterized by its own phonology, vocabulary, and grammar distinct from other Portuguese dialects such as Brazilian Portuguese.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect of Portuguese
language variety
variety of the Portuguese language
closelyRelatedTo Galician language NERFINISHED
differsFrom African Portuguese varieties
Asian Portuguese varieties
Brazilian Portuguese NERFINISHED
hasDialect Azorean Portuguese NERFINISHED
Central Portuguese NERFINISHED
Madeiran Portuguese NERFINISHED
Northern Portuguese NERFINISHED
Southern Portuguese NERFINISHED
hasFeature clitic pronouns often placed after the verb in affirmative sentences
distinctive sibilant pronunciation at word-final position
reduction of unstressed vowels
strong vowel reduction in final syllables
use of mesoclisis in formal written language
use of second person pronoun "tu" in informal address
use of second person pronoun "você" mainly in formal or distant contexts
hasGrammar European Portuguese grammar
hasMood imperative mood
indicative mood
subjunctive mood
hasPhonologicalContrast open and closed mid vowels
hasPhonology European Portuguese phonology
hasStandardForm standard European Portuguese
hasTenseSystem synthetic conditional tense
synthetic future tense
hasVocabulary European Portuguese vocabulary
hasWritingConvention use of diacritics such as acute, circumflex and tilde
languageFamily Ibero-Romance languages NERFINISHED
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Romance languages
Western Romance languages
officialStatusIn Portugal NERFINISHED
orthographyStandard Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 NERFINISHED
partOf Portuguese language
preReformOrthography Portuguese orthography of 1945 NERFINISHED
regulatedBy Academia das Ciências de Lisboa NERFINISHED
Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa NERFINISHED
spokenIn Azores NERFINISHED
Madeira NERFINISHED
Portugal NERFINISHED
standardBasedOn Coimbra dialect NERFINISHED
Lisbon dialect
standardizedIn Portugal NERFINISHED
usedIn Portuguese media
Portuguese public administration
education in Portugal
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Orthographic Agreement of 1945 appliesIn European Portuguese
Toninho culturalContext European Portuguese
Marcos hasLanguageUsage European Portuguese
Sendinês hasNeighbouringVariety European Portuguese
this entity surface form: Portuguese dialects of northeastern Portugal
Ansião languageUsed European Portuguese
Camarate languageUsed European Portuguese