Sulkovian dialect
The Sulkovian dialect is one of the Silesian dialects, extracted by Feliks Steuer in his work Dialekt sułkowski. It is a part of the Silesian-Lach border dialects; its name derives from Steuer's native village Sułków.
The works Ostatni gwojźdźaurz and Z naszej źymjy ślůnskej were written in this dialect.
The characteristic features of Sulkovian phonology are:
- the evolution of former long a into au, pronounced ;
- keeping of hard k and g in the combinations ky and gy, e.g. okynka, pługy ;
- so-called "anticipation of softness" - adding the consonant j, e.g. kujźńa ;
- the evolution of nasal vowel at the end of a word into am, e.g. cebulam.