German dialects are the various traditional local varieties of the German language. Though varied by region, those of the southern half of Germany beneath the Benrath line are dominated by the geographical spread of the High German consonant shift, and the dialect continuum that connect German to the neighboring varieties of Low Franconian and Frisian.

The dialects of Portugal can be divided into two major groups: The southern and central dialects are broadly characterized by preserving the distinction between /b/ and /v/, and by the tendency to monophthongize ei and ou to [] and [].They include the dialect of the capital, Lisbon, but it has some peculiarities of its own.Although the dialects of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores …