Southern Borderlands dialect

Southern Borderlands dialect
dialekt południowokresowy
Native to	Ukraine
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Polish Lesser Polish[dubious – discuss] Southern Borderlands dialect
Writing system	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.

Southern Borderlands dialect 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.

Phonology

Look up Category:Southern Borderlands Polish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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:

Citations

Bibliography

• 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)