The Southwestern Ukrainian dialects ( uk, Південно-західне наріччя, translit=Pivdenno-zakhidne narichchia) are, together with the
Northern
Northern may refer to the following:
Geography
* North, a point in direction
* Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe
* Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States
* Northern Province, Sri Lanka
* Northern Range, a ra ...
and
Southeastern groups, one of the three main dialect groups of the Ukrainian language. In contrast to Southeastern, which is the
literary standard of Ukrainian within Ukraine, Southwestern is common within the
Ukrainian diaspora, much of which comes from
Western Ukraine.
The Southwestern dialects contain more archaisms than the Southeastern dialects, but do not use the same archaic vowel system as the Northern dialects. Among the speakers of the
Carpathian dialect group, regardless of stress, historic vowel sounds and become , becomes , and becomes . In the
Galician–Bukovinian dialect group, becomes or , and becomes .
Historically, the Southwestern dialects also separated foreign loanwords from native Ukrainian words by usage of the sound for "" rather than the typically used for the sound in non-loanwords. This practice ended following the
Ukrainian orthography of 1933
The Ukrainian orthography of 1933 ( uk, Український правопис 1933 року, translit=Ukrainskyi pravopys 1933 roku) is the Ukrainian orthography, adopted in 1933 in the capital of the UkrSSR, Kharkiv. It began the process of art ...
and the
Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia.
Classification
Southwestern Ukrainian is broken into three dialect groups, each of which contain multiple dialects:
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Volhynian-Podolian group
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Volhynian dialect
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Podolian dialect
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Galician–Bukovinian group
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Dniestrian
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Upper Sannian
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Pokuttia–Bukovina
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Hutsul
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Carpathian group
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
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Boyko
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Transcarpathian
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Lemko
References
Ukrainian dialects