Barranquenho

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Barranquenho
Barranquenhu
Native to	Portugal
Region	Barrancos
Native speakers	(undated figure of 1,500)[1]
Language family	Mixed Portuguese-Spanish Barranquenho
Early forms	Old Latin Vulgar Latin Proto-Romance Galician-Portuguese and Old Spanish Portuguese and Early Modern Spanish Portuguese and Modern Spanish
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist List	1oy
Glottolog	None
Location of Barrancos in the Beja District

Barranquenho (Barranquenhu^[2]) is a Romance linguistic variety spoken in the Portuguese town of Barrancos, near the Spanish border. It is a mixed language, and can be considered either a variety of Portuguese (Alentejan Portuguese) heavily influenced by the Spanish dialects of neighbouring areas in Spain in Extremadura and Andalusia (especially those from Encinasola and Rosal de la Frontera),^[3] or a Spanish dialect (Extremaduran / Andalusian) heavily influenced by Portuguese.

Barranquenho speakers maintain that they speak neither Spanish nor Portuguese but a third language altogether different. Ethnologue lists Barranquenho (as Barranquian) as a dialect of Extremaduran, perhaps because Barrancos was populated by settlers from Badajoz, a city in Extremadura, though not in an Extremaduran language speaking area.^[4]

The development of Barranquenho seems to be relatively recent, the variety developing no earlier than 1527 and likely by the early 1800s, unlike other minority linguistic varieties in the Iberian Peninsula, which have medieval roots.^[5]