Florianopolitan is not a uniform dialect, and there are many variations, depending on the community and generation of the speaker. However, here are several principal characteristics of the Florianopolitan dialect speech: • An 's' is often pronounced before a 'c', 'p', 'qu', or 'e'. It is also pronounced at the end of a word, very softly. The phrase
as festas (the parties) is thus pronounced or . • An 's', before a 'd', 'm' or 'n', is pronounced . Thus,
mesma (same) is pronounced . • and are pronounced respectively as and even before . In most of Southeastern Brazil, they are affricates and . • Both word-initial and preconsonantal are glottal , but there is some variation. Some speakers, the older generations, use an alveolar trill , as in
Spanish,
Galician, old varieties and some rural developments of
European Portuguese, and some other Southern Brazilian Portuguese dialects. Others pronounce it as a uvular trill or a voiceless dorsal fricative, velar or uvular . • As in Caipira dialects and most speakers of Fluminense dialect, word-final is deleted unless the next word is without a pause and starts with a vowel. ==Forms of address==