that is not a simple dialect of Brazilian Portuguese) Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese of Brazil) / American Portuguese Northern / Broad Northern (one of its earlier centers, in the 16th century, was Salvador da Bahia) Bahian Salvador da Bahia dialect (Soteropolitano) Northeast Eastern Northeast Recifense (Recife and Olinda dialect) Western Northeast Cearense/Northern Coast Amazonian/Northern Proper (sometimes also called Northern Brazilian) Transitional Northern-Southern (Mixed Northern-Southern Portuguese Brazilian) Amazonic Range (Serra Amazônica)/Deforestation Arc (Arco do Desflorestamento) Southern / Broad Southern (one of its earlier centers, in the 16th century, was São Vicente, in the western half of the island with the same name, closely offshore of São Paulo State coast, in the eastern half of the island is Santos city) Fluminense (Broad Rio de Janeiro, in the Rio de Janeiro State) Rio de Janeiro dialect (Carioca) Espiritosantense/Goitacá (in Espírito Santo State) Mineiro (in central Minas Gerais State) Belo Horizonte dialect Brasiliense (in Brasilia, Brazil capital) Sulista Lato Próprio (Broad Southern Proper) São Paulo dialect (Paulistano) (São Paulo City Proper dialect) Broad Paulista (Caipira) Sertanejo/Southern Sertanejo (Sertanejo do Sul) Southerner Proper (Sulista Próprio)/Gaúcho (sometimes Gaúcho is used as synonym of all Southern Proper Brazilian dialects) Florianopolitano (Manezês) (in Santa Catarina State Coast) (stronger influences from European Portuguese, mainly from Azorean settlers and colonists of the 18th century) Gaúcho / Narrow Gaúcho (Gaúcho Estrito) (in all the Rio Grande do Sul State or just the South of Rio Grande do Sul State along northern border of Uruguay) Portoalegrense (in Porto Alegre) Standard Brazilian Portuguese (mainly based on the dialects of the Southeast Brazilian States, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais) Uruguayan Portuguese/Fronteiriço (not a simple dialect of Brazilian Portuguese) (not confuse with Portunhol/Portuñol that is a mixed language) African Portuguese Cape Verdean Portuguese (not confuse with Cape Verdean Creole) Guinean Portuguese / Guinea-Bissau Portuguese (not confuse with Guinea-Bissau Creole) (mainly in the capital Bissau) Sao Tomean Portuguese / São Tomé and Principe Portuguese (not confuse with Forro/San Tomean and Principense Creoles) Angolan Portuguese Mozambican Portuguese India Portuguese Goan Portuguese China Portuguese Macanese Portuguese (not confuse with Macanese language or patuá, a distinct Portuguese creole) East Timorese Portuguese Minderico (Piação do Ninhou / Piação dos Charales do Ninhou) (originally it was a Portuguese-based Cant or Cryptolect) (not mutual intelligible with Portuguese because of divergent vocabulary) (spoken in Minde; Ninhou in Minderico) Judaeo-Portuguese (udeu-Português) (it was the vernacular language of Sephardi Jews in