 Barranquian speakers maintain that they speak neither Spanish nor Portuguese but a third language altogether different.Although contrary to certain claims, Barranquenho is intelligible to speakers of both languages, and especially similar to the Andalusian dialect.Ethnologue lists 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.