The Sulkovian dialect ( Silesian: ''sulkowski djalekt''; pl, dialekt sułkowski) is one of the Silesian dialects, extracted by Feliks Steuer in his work ''Dialekt sułkowski'' (1934). It is a part of the

Silesia Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...

n- Lach border dialects; its name derives from Steuer's native village Sulków. The works ''Ostatni gwojźdźaurz'' and ''Z naszej źymjy ślůnskej'' were written in this

dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...

. The characteristic features of Sulkovian

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are: * the evolution of former long ''a'' into ''au'', pronounced ; * keeping of hard k and g in the combinations ''ky'' and ''gy'', e.g. ''okynka'' (windows), ''pługy'' ( ploughs); * so-called "anticipation of softness" - adding the consonant ''j'', e.g. ''kujźńa'' (smithy); *the evolution of nasal vowel at the end of a word into ''am'', e.g. ''cebulam'' (

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, the

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