Southern Borderlands dialect explained

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.^{[1] [2]}

Phonology

The main differences in pronunciation lie within the consonant system.

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

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

The phoneme charts are as follows:

Oral vowels!! Front! Central! Back Close pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ Mid pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ Open pronounced as /link/

Nasal vowels!! Front! Back Mid pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/

		Labial	Dental/ alveolar	Post- alveolar	(Alveolo-) palatal	Velar		Glottal
Nasal		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Plosive		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /ink/
		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /ink/
Affricate			pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
			pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Fricative		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Tap/trill			pronounced as /link/
Approximant			pronounced as /link/, pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/

Citations

References

Bibliography

• Book: Karaś, Halina . Kresowe odmiany polszczyzny. 2010 . Dialekty i gwary polskie . pl . Borderlands variants of Polish . 978-83-62844-10-4 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230323192518/http://www.dialektologia.uw.edu.pl/index.php?l1=leksykon&lid=623 . March 23, 2023 . live.

Notes and References

1. Book: Zofia Kurzowa . Ze studiów nad polszczyzną kresową . 2007 . Szpiczakowska Monika, Skarżyński Mirosław . Universitas . Kraków . 978-83-242-0683-4 . pl.
2. Book: Zofia Kurzowa . Język polski Wileńszczyzny i kresów północno-wschodnich . 2006 . Szpiczakowska Monika, Skarżyński Mirosław . Universitas . Kraków . 83-242-0738-4 . pl.