Southern Borderlands dialect

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The main differences in pronunciation lie within the consonant system.

1. Standard Polish /w/, spelled ⟨ł⟩, is pronounced /ɫ/, and standard /l/ is palatalized, yielding /lʲ/, like in the Northern Borderlands dialect.
2. Standard Polish /x/, spelled ⟨ch⟩, may be palatalized, yielding /xʲ/
3. The Southern Borderlands dialect differentiates /ɦ/ and /x/, spelled respectively in Polish as ⟨h⟩ and ⟨ch⟩
4. The standard Polish palatal sibilants and affricates, /ɕ/, /ʑ/, /t͡ɕ/, and /d͡ʑ/ (spelled ⟨ś⟩, ⟨ź⟩, ⟨ć⟩, and ⟨dź⟩ respectively) are pronounced /sʲ/, /zʲ/, /tʲ/, and /dʲ/.

Some speakers speak with an accent according to the pronunciation of Ukrainian cognates.

The phoneme charts are as follows:

• Karaś, Halina (2010). Kresowe odmiany polszczyzny [Borderlands variants of Polish] (in Polish). ISBN 978-83-62844-10-4. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)