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The Sulkovian dialect ( Silesian: ''sułkowski djalekt''; ) is one of the Silesian dialects, extracted by
The Sulkovian dialect ( Silesian: ''sułkowski djalekt''; ) is one of the Silesian dialects, extracted by Feliks Steuer
Feliks Steuer (November 5, 1889 – May 30, 1950) was a Silesian educationist.
Education and career
Born in Zülkowitz (then Prussian Silesia, now Sulków in Poland).
He was educated in Leobschütz (Czech: ''Hlubčice'', Polish: ''Głubczyc ...
in his work ''Dialekt sułkowski'' (1934). It is a part of the Silesia
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n-Lach
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border dialects; its name derives from Steuer's native village Sułków.
The works ''Ostatni gwojźdźaurz'' and ''Z naszej źymjy ślůnskej'' were written in this dialect
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.
The characteristic features of Sulkovian phonology
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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'' (plough
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s);
* 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'' (onion
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, the accusative
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case).http://www.slunskoeka.pyrsk.com/gawyndy.html#4.
Example
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