Editing Standard language (section)

==== Brazil ====
In Brazil, actors and journalists usually adopt an unofficial, but ''[[de facto]]'', spoken standard of [[Brazilian Portuguese]], originally derived from the middle-class dialects of [[Rio de Janeiro (city)|Rio de Janeiro]] and [[Brasília]], but that now encompasses educated urban pronunciations from the different speech communities in the southeast. This artificial accent is called [[:pt:Dialeto_neutro|''sotaque neutro'']]. In that standard, {{angbr|s}} represents the phoneme {{IPA|/s/}} when it appears at the end of a syllable (whereas in Rio de Janeiro this represents {{IPA|/ʃ/}}) and the [[rhotic consonant]] spelled {{angbr|r}} is pronounced {{IPA|[h]}} in the same situation (whereas in [[São Paulo (city)|São Paulo]] this is usually an [[alveolar flap]] or [[alveolar trill|trill]]). 

The [[sociolect]] of [[Prestige (sociolinguistics)|prestige]] of ''[[mineiro]]'' spoken in the capital of [[Minas Gerais]], [[Belo Horizonte]], is the accent from Brazilian Portuguese that is the nearest to ''sotaque neutro''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vieira Lima Neto |first=Newton |date=2018 |title=BRASÍLIA, SUA GENTE, SEUS SOTAQUES: DIFUSÃO CANDANGA E FOCALIZAÇÃO BRASILIENSE NA CAPITAL FEDERAL |url=http://icts.unb.br/jspui/bitstream/10482/34808/1/2018_NewtonVieiraLimaNeto.pdf |access-date=2024-09-15 |website=University of Brasília}}</ref>