Northern_Borderlands_dialect

Northern Borderlands dialect

Northern Borderlands dialect

Dialect of Polish language

Northern Borderlands dialect[lower-alpha 1] is a dialect of the Polish language, spoken by the Polish minorities in Lithuania and in northwestern Belarus.[1][2]

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Phonology

The Northern Borderlands dialect retains the same vowel system as standard Polish, however there is often vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. Most of the major differences appear in the realization of consonants. See Polish phonology for more information on allophones.

  1. Standard Polish /w/, spelled <ł>, is pronounced /ɫ/, and standard /l/ is palatalized, yielding /lʲ/, like in the Southern Borderlands dialect.
  2. The standard Polish palatal sibilants and affricates, /ɕ/, /ʑ/, /t͡ɕ/, and /d͡ʑ/ (spelled ,<ś>, <ź>, <ć>, and <dź> respectively) are pronounced /sʲ/, /zʲ/, /t͡sʲ/, and /d͡zʲ/.

The phoneme charts are as follows:

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In media

This accent can be heard much in Lithuania. TVP has a station in Vilnius, and the podcast TakiTalk features many speakers with this accent.

Notes

  1. Polish: dialekt północnokresowy

References

  1. [1]
    Zofia Kurzowa (2007). Szpiczakowska Monika, Skarżyński Mirosław (ed.). Ze studiów nad polszczyzną kresową (in Polish). Kraków: Universitas. ISBN 978-83-242-0683-4.
  2. [2]
    Zofia Kurzowa (2006). Szpiczakowska Monika, Skarżyński Mirosław (ed.). Język polski Wileńszczyzny i kresów północno-wschodnich (in Polish). Kraków: Universitas. ISBN 83-242-0738-4.

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