Southern Borderlands dialect
Dialect of Polish language
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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]
NativetoUkraine
Indo-European
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Balto-Slavic
- Slavic
- West Slavic
- Lechitic
- Polish
- Lesser Polish[dubious – discuss]
- Southern Borderlands dialect
- Lesser Polish[dubious – discuss]
- Polish
- Lechitic
- West Slavic
- Slavic
| Southern Borderlands dialect | |
|---|---|
| dialekt południowokresowy | |
| Native to | Ukraine |
Indo-European
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| Latin (Polish alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | pl-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. | |
Phonology
Look up Category:Southern Borderlands Polish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The main differences in pronunciation lie within the consonant system.
- Standard Polish /w/, spelled ⟨ł⟩, is pronounced /ɫ/, and standard /l/ is palatalized, yielding /lʲ/, like in the Northern Borderlands dialect.
- Standard Polish /x/, spelled ⟨ch⟩, may be palatalized, yielding /xʲ/
- The Southern Borderlands dialect differentiates /ɦ/ and /x/, spelled respectively in Polish as ⟨h⟩ and ⟨ch⟩
- 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: