Sulkovian dialect
Encyclopedia
The Sulkovian dialect is one of the Silesian dialects, extracted by Feliks Steuer
in his work Dialekt sułkowski (1934). It is a part of the Silesia
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border dialects; its name derives from Steuer's native town - Sulków
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The works Ostatni gwojźdźaurz and Z naszej źymjy ślůnskej were written in this dialect
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The characteristic features of Sulkovian phonology
are:
Feliks Steuer
Dr. Feliks Steuer was a Silesian educationist.Born in Zülkowitz , he was educated in Leobschütz...
in his work Dialekt sułkowski (1934). It is a part of the Silesia
Silesia
Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...
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Lach dialects
The Lach dialects , are a group of dialects of Silesian language. They represent a hybrid or mix of the West Slavic languages.The Lach dialects are spoken in parts of Czech Silesia, the Hlučín region, and northeastern Moravia, as well as in some adjacent villages in Poland...
border dialects; its name derives from Steuer's native town - Sulków
Sulków
Sułków may refer to the following places in Poland:*Sułków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship *Sułków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship *Sułków, Masovian Voivodeship *Sułków, Opole Voivodeship...
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The works Ostatni gwojźdźaurz and Z naszej źymjy ślůnskej were written in this dialect
Dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors,...
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The characteristic features of Sulkovian phonology
Phonology
Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...
are:
- the evolution of former long a into au, pronounced aw;
- keeping of hard k and g in the combinations ky and gy, eg. okynka (windows), pługy (ploughPloughThe plough or plow is a tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed or planting. It has been a basic instrument for most of recorded history, and represents one of the major advances in agriculture...
s); - so-called "anticipation of softness" - adding the consonant j, eg. kujźńa (smithy);
- the evolution of nasal vowel at the end of a word into am, eg. cebulam (onionOnionThe onion , also known as the bulb onion, common onion and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion The onion...
, the accusative case).