In vowels a distinction is drawn regarding the degree of openness of the front of the resonance chamber (of the oral cavity) between a high (e.g. [i]), high-mid (e.g. [e]), mid (e.g. [ә]), low-mid (e.g. [ε]), and low (e.g. [a]), placement of...

Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro or português do Brasil in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 184 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple of million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in...