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.

Southern Borderlands dialect
dialekt południowokresowy
Native to	Ukraine
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Polish Lesser Polish Southern Borderlands dialect
Writing system	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

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:

Oral vowels Front Central Back Close i ɨ u Mid ɛ ɔ Open a

Nasal vowels Front Back Mid ɛ̃ ɔ̃

		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

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)