In standard European Portuguese, the alveolar fricative becomes an alveopalatal fricative word-finally and before a consonant. However, in the dialects of Tras-os-Montes and Beira, this is not the case. The apicoalveolar fricative is used both word-finally and before consonants.
Words such as dois (two) and oeste (west) have an alveopalatal fricative in standard European Portuguese. In the northern dialects of Tras-os-Montes and Beria, however, they are not pronounced with an alveopalatal fricative but with an apicodental fricative. It is the same fricative which is used in the spanish of northern Spain.
The word seis (six) is pronounced with two different fricatives in standard European Portuguese. The first fricative is the voiceless alveolar fricative and the second is the voiceless alveopalatal fricative. In the dialects of Tras-os-Montes and Beira, the same fricative is used in both cases, the voiceless apicodental fricative.
The apicodental fricative is not used in standard European Portuguese. However, it is used in the dialects of Tras-os-Montes and Beira. The result is that many words are pronounced differently in Tras-os-Montes and Beira in comparison to the rest of Portugal.
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