Southern Borderlands dialect

Dialect of Polish language From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Southern Borderlands dialect[a] is a dialect of the Polish language, spoken by the Polish minority in Ukraine. It is considered a branch of the Lesser Poland dialect by Zofia Kurzowa.[1][2]

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Southern Borderlands dialect
dialekt południowokresowy
Native toUkraine
Latin (Polish alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
IETFpl-UA
Map of borders of the Second Polish Republic until 1939, and modern state of Poland, including the area of the reach of the Southern Borderlands dialect.
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Phonology

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 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:

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Oral vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Mid ɛ ɔ
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Nasal vowels
Front Back
Mid ɛ̃ ɔ̃
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