World Library  
My Account |  Register |  Help  
  
Flag as Inappropriate
Email this Article

Lesser Polish dialect

Article Id: WHEBN0036910062
Reproduction Date:

Title: Lesser Polish dialect  
Author: World Heritage Encyclopedia
Language: English
Subject: Meillet's law, Havlík's law, Lesser Poland, Illič-Svityč's law, Pedersen's law
Collection:
Publisher: World Heritage Encyclopedia
Publication
Date:
 

Lesser Polish dialect

Map of Polish dialects

Lesser Polish dialect (Polish: dialekt małopolski; named after the historical region of Lesser Poland) is a regional variety of the Polish language. Heterogeneous, it covers a wide range of local dialects, often differing from one place to another. Hence in Polish linguistics there is a strong division onto proper dialects (Lesser Polish dialect, Mazovian dialect, Silesian dialect) and subdialects (Polish: gwara). Common subdialects of Lesser Polish dialect include Podhale subdialect, Cracow subdialect, Lwów subdialect, Sącz subdialect, Żywiec subdialect, Kielce subdialect and some others.

The common traits of Lesser Polish variety of the Polish language include:

  • nasal pronunciation of ą and ę, pronunciation of -enka suffix (typical of many female nouns) as εŋka rather than εnka ("dziewczynka", "sukienka")
  • lack of distinction between affricates and stop+fricative consonant clusters, for example
This article was sourced from Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. World Heritage Encyclopedia content is assembled from numerous content providers, Open Access Publishing, and in compliance with The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR), Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Public Library of Science, The Encyclopedia of Life, Open Book Publishers (OBP), PubMed, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and USA.gov, which sources content from all federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government publication portals (.gov, .mil, .edu). Funding for USA.gov and content contributors is made possible from the U.S. Congress, E-Government Act of 2002.
 
Crowd sourced content that is contributed to World Heritage Encyclopedia is peer reviewed and edited by our editorial staff to ensure quality scholarly research articles.
 
By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. World Heritage Encyclopedia™ is a registered trademark of the World Public Library Association, a non-profit organization.
 


Copyright © World Library Foundation. All rights reserved. eBooks from Project Gutenberg are sponsored by the World Library Foundation,
a 501c(4) Member's Support Non-Profit Organization, and is NOT affiliated with any governmental agency or department.