with caipira, sertanejo and often sulista that make it differing from amazofonia (in the opposite group of Brazilian dialects, in which it is placed along nordestino, baiano, mineiro and fluminense). It is the most recent dialect, which appeared by the settlement of families from various other Brazilian regions attracted by the cheap land offer in recently deforested areas. Recifense – used in Recife and its metropolitan area. Portugal Micaelense (Açores) (São Miguel) – Azores. Alentejano – Alentejo (Alentejan Portuguese), with the Oliventine subdialect. Algarvio – Algarve (there is a particular dialect in a small part of western Algarve). Minhoto – Districts of Braga and Viana do Castelo (hinterland). Beirão; Alto-Alentejano – Central Portugal (hinterland). Beirão – Central Portugal. Estremenho – Regions of Coimbra and Lisbon (this is a disputed denomination, as Coimbra and is not part of "Estremadura", and the Lisbon dialect has some peculiar features that are not only not shared with that of Coimbra, but also significantly distinct and recognizable to most native speakers from elsewhere in Portugal). Madeirense (Madeiran) – Madeira. Portuense – Regions of the district of Porto and parts of Aveiro. Transmontano – Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. Other countries and dependencies – Angolano (Angolan Portuguese) – Cabo-verdiano (Cape Verdean Portuguese) – Timorense (East Timorese Portuguese) – Damaense (Damanese Portuguese) and Goês (Goan Portuguese) – Guineense (Guinean Portuguese) – Macaense (Macanese Portuguese) – Moçambicano (Mozambican Portuguese) – Santomense (São Tomean Portuguese) – Dialectos Portugueses del Uruguay (DPU) Differences between dialects are mostly of accent and vocabulary, but between the Brazilian dialects and other dialects, especially in their most colloquial forms, there can also be some grammatical differences. The Portuguese-based creoles spoken in various parts of Africa, Asia, and the Americas are independent languages. Characterization and peculiarities Portuguese, like Catalan, preserves the stressed vowels of Vulgar Latin which became diphthongs in most other Romance languages; cf. Port., Cat., Sard. pedra ; Fr. , Sp. , It. , Ro. , from Lat. ("stone"); or Port. , Cat. , Sard. ; Sp. , It. , Fr. , Ro. , from Lat. ("fire"). Another characteristic of early Portuguese was the loss of intervocalic l and n, sometimes followed by the merger of the two surrounding vowels, or by the insertion of an epenthetic vowel between them: cf. Lat. ("to exit"), ("to have"), ("jail"), Port. , , . When the elided consonant was n, it often nasalized the preceding vowel: cf.