| Northern Borderlands dialect | |
|---|---|
| dialekt północnokresowy | |
| Native to | Lithuania, Belarus |
| Latin (Polish alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
 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]
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.
The phoneme charts are as follows:
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| Labial | Dental/ alveolar | Post- alveolar | (Alveolo-) palatal | Velar | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | palatalized | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | kʲ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡʲ | |||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡s , t͡sʲ | t͡ʂ | ||||
| voiced | d͡z , d͡zʲ | d͡ʐ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s , sʲ | ʂ | x | xʲ | |
| voiced | v | z , zʲ | ʐ | ||||
| Tap/trill | r | ||||||
| Approximant | lʲ , ɫ | j | |||||
This accent can be heard much in Lithuania. TVP has a station in Vilnius, and the podcast TakiTalk features many speakers with this accent.
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