Northern Borderlands dialect
dialekt północnokresowy
Native toLithuania, Belarus
Latin (Polish alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
Map of borders of the Second Polish Republic until 1939, and modern state of Poland, including the area of the reach of the Northern Borderlands dialect.

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]

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:

Oral vowels
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Mid ɛ ɔ
Open a
Nasal vowels
Front Back
Mid ɛ̃ ɔ̃
Labial Dental/
alveolar
Post-
alveolar
(Alveolo-)
palatal
Velar
plain palatalized
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d ɡ ɡʲ
Affricate voiceless t͡s, t͡sʲ t͡ʂ
voiced d͡z, d͡zʲ d͡ʐ
Fricative voiceless f s, ʂ x
voiced v z, ʐ
Tap/trill r
Approximant , ɫ j

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. Zofia Kurzowa (2007). Szpiczakowska Monika, Skarżyński Mirosław (ed.). Ze studiów nad polszczyzną kresową (in Polish). Kraków: Universitas. ISBN 978-83-242-0683-4.
  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.

Bibliography

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