Southern Borderlands dialect

Southern Borderlands dialect
dialekt południowokresowy
Native to	Ukraine
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Polish Lesser Polish Southern Borderlands dialect
Writing system	Latin (Polish alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
ELP
IETF	pl-UA
Map of borders of the Second Polish Republic until 1939, and modern state of Poland, including the area of the reach of the 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 /w/, spelled ⟨ł⟩, is pronounced /ɫ/, and standard /l/ is palatalized, yielding /lʲ/, like in the Northern Borderlands dialect.
2. Standard Polish /x/, spelled ⟨ch⟩, may be palatalized, yielding /xʲ/
3. The Southern Borderlands dialect differentiates /ɦ/ and /x/, spelled respectively in Polish as ⟨h⟩ and ⟨ch⟩
4. The standard Polish palatal sibilants and affricates, /ɕ/, /ʑ/, /t͡ɕ/, and /d͡ʑ/ (spelled ⟨ś⟩, ⟨ź⟩, ⟨ć⟩, and ⟨dź⟩ respectively) are pronounced /sʲ/, /zʲ/, /tʲ/, and /dʲ/.

Some speakers speak with an accent according to the pronunciation of Ukrainian cognates.

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		Glottal
						plain	palatalized
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t, tʲ			k	kʲ
	voiced	b	d, dʲ			ɡ	ɡʲ
Affricate	voiceless		t͡s	t͡ʂ
	voiced		d͡z	d͡ʐ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s, sʲ	ʂ		x	xʲ	ɦ
	voiced	v	z, zʲ	ʐ
Tap/trill			r
Approximant			lʲ, ɫ		j