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Nope, it does not. Your point is well made and I can see what you mean. German is rather similar too. The phrase "Ich muss den Berg zu besteigen" is I must climb the mountain in standard German. In Bavaria that phrase is "I mus aufi das berg".
Technically, the Standard German sentence of yours is a very formal way to say that. It's more like:
Standard: Ich muss auf den Berg.
Bav.: I muaß auffi am Beag.
or
Standard: Ich muss den Berg besteigen
Bav.: I muaß den Beag b'steign.
In Brazil, we know from which region is the man when he opens the mouth - although, for example, the accents of the northeastern states sound all the same for someone from the south. However, all brazilians can understand each other without any problem. As for Portugal, we note that is easier to understand those from the southern areas than those from the northern ones, especially in the region of Trás-os-Montes. In fact, it's easier to understand Spanish than the Portuguese spoken in that region. The Portuguese spoken in Angola sounds too european for brazilian ears and too brazilian for portuguese ears.
In Slovenia, accents vary from village to village. There are 7 main groups of dialects, which then go to around 50 subgroups and then those go to even smaller subgroups. Villages only 5km or less apart can have different accents. It's even more distinct in the cities. Celje for example, has a completely different accent than, let's say, Velenje, which is only 25km away or Trbovlje, which is 35km away. The NE part next to Hungarian border, practicly speaks it's own language, heavily influenced by Hungarian and Croatian. I believe people from NE part and people from the western part next to Italy, don't understand each other AT ALL when speaking in accents. Western part of the country has very Italian sounding accents and some northern parts, specificaly Carinthia sound German. Slovenians accross the border in Resia valley, Italy, have a very distinct dialect which is almost a new language on it's own. It's very easy to know which part of, not only the country, but region, someone is from when they start to speak.
in bulgaria there are only 2 accents it seems. One is the "hard" western accent of the capital city - sofia- and the other is the "soft"/russian sounding of eastern/southern bulgaria. In those areas people pronounce "e" as "ye" and "zh" as "zhhh". So the bulgarian word for example: "zhestoko" is pronounced as written by people from the capital but elsewhere is usually "zhhhistoko". so on...
There are 6 main dialects for Swedish, and not all of them have that many differences, just pronunciation and vocabulary, especially with the southern Swedish dialect. Dialect map of the main ones
Dark blue: Norrland dialect
Red: Finnish Swedish dialect
Pink: Svealand dialect
Green: Götaland dialect
Gold: Southern Swedish dialect/Scanian
Brown: Gotland dialect
Of course these can then be further split up into local dialects, but the differences won't be too large. Here's a site where you can hear most of the dialects in certain towns and cities in Sweden and Finland. Snabbmeny
Click on a town or region then pick the gender
European Portuguese has at least 6 quite distinct accents (for a portuguese person at least), the most distinct from the standard one ( central coastal, Coimbra to Lisbon area) is the one from the islands of the Azores, specially from São Miguel island
These are the 4 main ones from the mainland, plus the one from Madeira and one from Azores, the brown one is the most standard (spoken by tv newcasters, etc...), the beige one is more closed and the ones from the north have more open vowels, light blue one sounds closer to galician, most people pronounce V as B there.
European and Brazilian Portuguese in the same song
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