Szadzenie () is a regional

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of the

Polish language Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In add ...

. It consists in replacement or

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of dental

affricates An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop consonant, stop and releases as a fricative consonant, fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal consonant, coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop a ...

⟨c, dz⟩ and dental

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⟨s, z⟩ into their

retroflex A retroflex ( /ˈɹɛtʃɹoːflɛks/), apico-domal ( /əpɪkoːˈdɔmɪnəl/), or cacuminal () consonant is a coronal consonant where the tongue has a flat, concave, or even curled shape, and is articulated between the alveolar ridge and the ha ...

counterparts i.e.

⟨cz, dż⟩ and

⟨sz, ż/rz⟩, respectively. Szadzenie is caused by the

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avoidance of (mazuration) which is phonetically marked as rural and incorrect. This phenomenon is common in areas which border mazurating dialects, for instance the

Suwałki Region Suwałki Region ( pl, Suwalszczyzna ; lt, Suvalkų kraštas, Suvalkija, russian: cувалкщина, german: Sudauen) is a small region around the city of Suwałki (known in Lithuanian as ''Suvalkai'') in northeastern Poland near the border wit ...

. Examples of attested words with in Polish dialects noted in the ''Atlas of Polish Dialects'' (): instead of ("millet, ''

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''"), instead of ("bovine"), instead of ("lard"). The word is derived from Polish word , colloquially meaning "to bother", pronounced in the relevant dialects as instead of .

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Sound changes Slavic phonological features Polish dialects {{slavic-lang-stub

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