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The Sulkovian dialect (
The Sulkovian dialect (Silesian Silesian as an adjective can mean anything from or related to Silesia. As a noun, it refers to an article, item, or person of or from Silesia.
Silesian may also refer to:
People and languages
* Silesians, inhabitants of Silesia, either a West S ...
: ''sulkowski djalekt''; pl, dialekt sułkowski) is one of the Silesian dialects, extracted by Feliks Steuer
Feliks Steuer (November 5, 1889 – May 30, 1950) was a Silesian educationist.
Born in Zülkowitz (then Prussian Silesia, now Sulków in Poland), he was educated in Leobschütz (Czech: ''Hlubčice'', Polish: ''Głubczyce''). He studied Slavic l ...
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 spli ...
n-Lach
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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 ...
.
The characteristic features of Sulkovian phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...
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
The accusative case ( abbreviated ) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb.
In the English language, the only words that occur in the accusative case are pronouns: 'me,' 'him,' 'her,' 'us,' and ‘th ...
case).http://www.slunskoeka.pyrsk.com/gawyndy.html#4.
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