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.

Phonology

The main differences in pronunciation lie within the consonant system.
  1. Standard Polish, spelled, is pronounced, and standard is palatalized, yielding, like in the Northern Borderlands dialect.
  2. Standard Polish, spelled, may be palatalized, yielding
  3. The Southern Borderlands dialect differentiates and, spelled respectively in Polish as and
  4. The standard Polish palatal sibilants and affricates,,,, and are pronounced,,, and.
Some speakers speak with an accent according to the pronunciation of Ukrainian cognates.
The phoneme charts are as follows: