page_title: Uruguayan Portuguese
hierarchical_section_title: Uruguayan Portuguese
caption_attribution_description: English: Border Brasil (Santana do Livramento) e Uruguai(Rivera) Português: Obelisco da Fronteira Internacional Brasil (Santana do Livramento) e Uruguai(Rivera) - Fronteira seca, conhecida como Fronteira da Paz
context_page_description: Uruguayan Portuguese, also known as fronteiriço and referred to by its speakers as portunhol, is a variety of Portuguese with heavy influence from Rioplatense Spanish. It is spoken in north-eastern Uruguay, near the Brazilian border, mainly in the region of the twin cities of Rivera and Santana do Livramento. This section of the frontier is called Frontera de la Paz, because there is no legal obstacle to crossing the border between the two countries.
  The varieties of Uruguayan Portuguese share many similarities with the countryside dialects of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, such as the denasalization of final unstressed nasal vowels, replacement of lateral palatal with semivowel, no raising of final unstressed, alveolar trill instead of the guttural R, and lateral realization of coda instead of L-vocalization.
  Recent changes in Uruguayan Portuguese include the urbanization of this variety, acquiring characteristics from urban Brazilian Portuguese such as distinction between and, affrication of and before and, and other features of Brazilian broadcast media.
context_section_description: Uruguayan Portuguese (português uruguaio, locally [poɾtuˈɣes uɾuˈɣwajo]), also known as fronteiriço (locally [fɾõteˈɾiso]) and referred to by its speakers as portunhol (locally [poɾtuˈɲɔɫ]), is a variety of Portuguese with heavy influence from Rioplatense Spanish. It is spoken in north-eastern Uruguay, near the Brazilian border, mainly in the region of the twin cities of Rivera (Uruguay) and Santana do Livramento (Brazil). This section of the frontier is called Frontera de la Paz (Border of Peace), because there is no legal obstacle to crossing the border between the two countries.
  The varieties of Uruguayan Portuguese share many similarities with the countryside dialects of the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, such as the denasalization of final unstressed nasal vowels, replacement of lateral palatal /ʎ/ with semivowel /j/, no raising of final unstressed /e/, alveolar trill /r/ instead of the guttural R, and lateral realization of coda /l/ instead of L-vocalization.
  Recent changes in Uruguayan Portuguese include the urbanization of this variety, acquiring characteristics from urban Brazilian Portuguese such as distinction between /ʎ/ and /j/, affrication of /t/ and /d/ before /i/ and /ĩ/, and other features of Brazilian broadcast media.
caption: Border of Peace between Rivera and Livramento.
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