Southern Borderlands dialect
dialekt południowokresowy
Native to	Ukraine
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Polish Lesser Polish[dubious –discuss] Southern Borderlands dialect
Writing system	Latin (Polish alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	pl-UA
Map of borders of theSecond Polish Republic until 1939, and modern state ofPoland, including the area of the reach of the Southern Borderlands dialect.

Southern Borderlands dialect^[a] is adialect of thePolish language, spoken by thePolish minority inUkraine. It is considered a branch of theLesser Poland dialect by Zofia Kurzowa.^[1][2]

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 theNorthern 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 Polishpalatalsibilants andaffricates,/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:

• Karaś, Halina (2010).Kresowe odmiany polszczyzny [Borderlands variants of Polish] (in Polish).ISBN 978-83-62844-10-4.Archived from the original on March 23, 2023.{{cite book}}:|website= ignored (help)

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