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]
| Southern Borderlands dialect | |
|---|---|
| dialekt południowokresowy | |
| Native to | Ukraine |
Indo-European
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| Latin (Polish alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
 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 edit
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:
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| Labial | Dental/ alveolar |
Post- alveolar |
(Alveolo-) palatal |
Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | palatalized | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t, tʲ | k | kʲ | |||
| voiced | b | d, dʲ | ɡ | ɡʲ | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s | t͡ʂ | |||||
| voiced | d͡z | d͡ʐ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s, sʲ | ʂ | x | xʲ | ɦ | |
| voiced | v | z, zʲ | ʐ | |||||
| Tap/trill | r | |||||||
| Approximant | lʲ, ɫ | j | ||||||
Citations edit
Notes edit
References edit
- ^ Zofia Kurzowa (2007). Szpiczakowska Monika, Skarżyński Mirosław (ed.). Ze studiów nad polszczyzną kresową (in Polish). Kraków: Universitas. ISBN 978-83-242-0683-4.
- ^ Zofia Kurzowa (2006). Szpiczakowska Monika, Skarżyński Mirosław (ed.). Język polski Wileńszczyzny i kresów północno-wschodnich (in Polish). Kraków: Universitas. ISBN 83-242-0738-4.
Bibliography edit
- Karaś, Halina (2010). "Kresowe odmiany polszczyzny" [Borderlands variants of Polish]. Dialekty i gwary polskie (in Polish). ISBN 978-83-62844-10-4. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023.