Lesser Poland dialect group
The Lesser Polish dialect group is a of dialect group of the Polish language used in Lesser Poland. The exact area is difficult to delineate due to the expansion of its features and the existence of transitional subdialects.
The common traits of the Lesser Polish dialect include:
- mazurzenie
- regressive voicing of obstruents, including across word boundaries; e.g.: kot leci
- differentiated nasalisation of /ɔ̃/ and /ɛ̃/ in different parts of the area
- merger of stop+fricative consonant clusters into affricates; e.g.: trzysta
- frequent usage of initial syllable stress, also oxytonic stress in vocative case
- frequent usage of grammatical particle "że" in imperative mood
List of dialects
The Goral ethnolect, which include:
Features of the region
Features that can be found in various intensities and distributions in the region include:- *telt > tlet
- * tórt’ > trot
- *ľ̥ > l̥ except *Pľ̥T́PK
- *Pľ̥T́PK > PilT́PK: wilk, milczeć or > łu after dentals: słup, długi, or oł after cz, ż, sz: mołwa, czółno, żółty, or eł after labials: chełm, chełpić się, wełna, pełny
- *ŕ̥T > ‘ar: twardy, tarł, ziarno
- voicing of coda stops and sibilants if the next word begins with a vowel or liquid
- bilabial w > v, which can be f, f́ after voiceless consonant, tfůj, kf́at. This also affect f < chw
- Mazuration
- ḷ > ł > u̯
- depalatalization of word final palatal labials
- phonemization of ḱ, ǵ from retaining them when they occursed before *y, ъ̥, e as well as denasalization of ę
- -ch > -k, or in Spisz > -f, or in clusters: kfała, kćáł
- Tendency for assimilation and simplification:
- # velarization of n before k
- # -ść, -śń > -ś: zleś, gryź, pleś, maś
- # weakening loss of -ł- at the end of an inlaut : gᵘ̭ova
- # strz, zdrz, trz, drz > szcz, żdż, cz, dż
- # rs, r-z > rz
- # kk > k
- Doubling of s, ś in bᵘ̯ossᵘ̯o, leśśe, viśśi, viessá, and sometimes ss śś > sc, ść bᵘ̯osco v leśće, viscá
- Breaking of the groups ss, zz, źź, vv, v́v́, ff, f́f́ by placing a mobile e after the prepositions/prefixes z, v
- śrz, źrz > śr, źr or in the north > rś, rź
- placement of stress on the penultimate syllable except in Podhale, which has initial stress
- loss of intervocalic j and contraction
- preference for jasne o: skolny
- ir > er in serce, śmierć, piersi, otherwise > ér
- In the north yl, ył, il, ił > el, eł, beł, beli, uN > oN, font, gront, lack of eN, oN > éN, óN
- i > y after sz, ż, cz, dż, c, dz, rz except in Podhale, which still has i
- Fronting, flattening, and narrowing of á before tautosyllabic j in the imperative: cekej
- á > o tako trova
- é > y after hard and soft consonants, except in the north where > y after hard, > i after soft, and in one region > e at least after hard
- Traces of e > o before tautosyllabic u̯, can be found in some Standard Polish words
- diphthongization/labialization of o > ᵘ̯o
- sometimes fronting of ᵘ̯o > ᵘ̯oᵉ, u̯ë, ᵘ̯ë, which avoids raising of o, which could be confused with the reflex of pochylone ó
- Loss of the alternation caused by ablaut of ‘o||’e, miotła||mietle by analogy of nonablauted forms, wiesna, niesę, also influenced by the change above
- Old Polish ą̆ > e ide, wode, along with denasalization of the vowel into an assimilated nasal consonant before a consonant, and total loss before stops and sibilants: deby gesi. Regionally ą̆ is retained, or mergs with ǫ: zǫp zǫby
- Old Polish ą̄ > ą̊ > ǫ along with denasalization of the vowel: dåb, dop, or sometimes in final position -om
- -iszcze > -isko
- Spread of -asty, -isty
- -‘ev- > -‘ov-, also after soft consonants
- use of od before vowels and semivowels
- loss of r- in the prefix roz-: ᵘ̯ozlác
- replacement of locative plural -’ech > -’och by analogy of -‘evi > -‘ovi etc., which was later replaced by -ach
- Levelling of the nominative and accusative singular neuter endings -ē and -ĕ by spreading -e, pole
- Replacement of the genitive singular masculine/neuter adjective endings -égo with -ego via tego, do niego
- Tendency to replace some noun declension endings with adjective endings or vice-versa
- Replacement of the neuter nominative/accusative numeral dwie with the masculine dwa
- Prefixed iść type verbs with an inserted -ń-
- Hardening of the first person singular and plural verb endings such as idemy, złapę by analogy of idę and archaic grzebę
- Spread of hard labial in l-forms of melę/pelę via contamination of ḿel-, ṕel, and the l-forms mełł-, pełl-
- spread of the first person plural verb ending -my under influence of the pronoun my, or with -va, sometimes -ma via contamination of the two; in the souther -me via Slovak.
- Creation and spread of the preterite ending -ek < -ech, contaminated with -ḿ as well as with the aorist form of the auxiliary verb bych in the south-wst: nosiłek, byłak; elsewhere -em, which can voice the stem: zaniuzem, zanius. This form could be a reduction of -chm
- Creation of the first person plural preteriate ending -chmy via contamination -sm + chom and under the influence of the pronoun my: nieślichmy. In some Lesser Poland subdialects, -sm > -śḿ under influence of -ś, -ście
- Rise of masculine personal nouns, except in a large number of subdialects where the gender disappeared.