Barranquian
Facts
- Language: Barranquian
- Alternate names: Barranquenho, Barranquenhu
- Language code: dextb
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance, Castilic
- Dialect of: Extremaduran
- Number of speakers: 1500
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
Barranquian is a dialect of Extremaduran, spoken in Portugal near the Spanish border.
Barranquian dialect speaking area
The Verb
The are both Portuguese and Extremaduran language influences in this dialect.
Differences compared with Portuguese
- Usage of 'eres' in use of 2nd person singular of the verb 'ser', opposed to 'es' in Portuguese.
- Usage of 'hay' as impersonal instead of 'há' as in Portuguese.
- Ending '-e' in 1st person preterite, instead of '-ei' as in Portuguese.