Southern Valencian
Southern Valencian () is a dialect of Valencian spoken in the south of the Valencian Community. It comprises two sub-varieties, Northern or Upper Southern Valencian (also known as ''proper'' Southern Valencian) and Southern or Lower Southern Valencian (traditionally known as Alicante's Valencian). Southern Valencian is renowned by the presence of different types of vowel harmony. Sub-varieties Upper Southern Valencian It includes all the ''comarques'' south of the Xúquer river that do not devoice the sibilants up to the line that joins the west to east the town of Biar with Busot. This dialectal zone is, broadly speaking, what we know as "General Valencian", in other words, the set of not Northern Valencian speeches that do not devoice the sibilants and do not participate of the linguistic singularity of the Lower Southern dialect. Within the Upper Southern Valencian it is necessary to do a subdivision: # Inland Zone. ''Comarques'' of la Costera, la Vall d'Albaida ...
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