From left to right, the old provinces ofBeira Litoral andEstremadura, now extinct.

Estremenho is a dialect ofEuropean Portuguese spoken in the formerprovinces ofEstremadura andBeira Litoral and is part of the central-southern dialects.^[1]

The variety ofLisbon, which is used to form the basis for the pattern ofEuropean Portuguese, is within this dialect.^[2] The Lisbon dialect that serves as the basis of standard European Portuguese is the one used for official and written purposes inAngola,Cape Verde,East Timor,Guinea-Bissau,Macau,Mozambique, andSão Tomé and Príncipe.

The Estremenhan dialects present the following characteristics:^[1]

• A generalized monophthongization of thediphthong [ow]. For example, "touro" (bull) and "roupa" (clothes) passes to "tôro" and "rôpa".
• In certain subregions, such as saloia (the outskirts of Lisbon), a monophthongization of the diphthong [ej] occurs. For example, "manêra" instead of "maneira" (manner), although this has evolved into [ɐj] in the Lisbon dialect ("manâira").
• The predorsodentalsibilants, that is, /s/ and /z/, are pronounced as in the European pattern and are well distinguished from the lower x and the j, contrary to what happens with the northern dialects.

• Sound recordings of the dialect
• New proposal for the classification of Galician-Portuguese dialects byLuís Lindley Cintra(in Portuguese)
• Portuguese dialects(in Portuguese)

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