Northern Borderlands dialect
Northern Borderlands dialect is a dialect of the Polish language, spoken by the Polish minorities in Lithuania and in northwestern Belarus.
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.- Standard Polish, spelled <ł>, is pronounced, and standard is palatalized, yielding, like in the Southern Borderlands dialect.
- The standard Polish palatal sibilants and affricates,,,, and are pronounced,,, and.