EURPhon: Portuguese (Lisbon)

Phylum: Indo-European

Genus: Romance

Lat/lon: 38.7222524, -9.139

ISO code: por

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular
stop	p, b		t̪, d̪				k, g
tap				ɾ
fricative		f, v		s, z	ʃ, ʒ			ʁ
nasal	m		n̪			ɲ
lateral approximant			l̪			ʎ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u, ɯ
close-mid	e		o
open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
near-open		ɐ
open		a

Short nasalised series

	front	central	back
close	ĩ		ũ
close-mid	ẽ		õ
near-open		ɐ̃

Diphthongs

/ɛi/, /ai/, /ɐi/, /ɔi/, /oi/, /ui/, /iu/, /eu/, /ɛu/, /au/, /ɐ̃i/, /õi/, /ũi/, /ɐ̃u/

Licit initial clusters

C{l,ɾ}

Licit finals

l, ɾ, ʁ, s

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)V(C)

Source: Cruz-Ferreira, Madalena. 1999. Portuguese (European). Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: a guide to the use of the International Phonetic Alphabet, 126–127. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Comments: Syllable structure is described following Azevedo, Milton Mariano. 2005. Portuguese: a linguistic introduction. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.