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Southwestern dialects [1] [2]; Name Description Volhynian-Podilian dialects Podilian []: Spoken on the territory of Podolia, in the southern parts of the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi oblasts, in the northern part of the Odesa Oblast, and in the adjacent districts of the Cherkasy Oblast, the Kirovohrad Oblast and the Mykolaiv Oblast.
Since 1818, the letter has been the only letter to indicate the sound /i/ in the Ukrainian language. Before that, the letters и, ѣ, ô, ê, û were used. Ї ї: yi, i yeast країна (country) ї /ji/ — /ji/ The letter was officially introduced to the alphabet by P. Zhytetskyi and K. Mykhalchuk in 1874–1875.
A dialect is a territorial, professional or social variant of a standard literary language. In Ukrainian there are 3 major dialectical groups - the south-western group, south-eastern group and the northern dialects. In recent times there have been attempts to categorise some of the Ukrainian dialects into separate languages.
if V is the Common Slavic *e, then the vowel in Ukrainian mutated to /a/, e.g., Common Slavic *žitĭje became Ukrainian /ʒɪˈtʲːa/ (життя́) if V is Common Slavic *ĭ, then the combination became /ɛj/, e.g., genitive plural in Common Slavic *myšĭjĭ became Ukrainian /mɪˈʃɛj/ (мише́й)
A defining characteristic of the Northern dialects is archaic vocalism of stressed vowels, or, in the case of letters "о" and "е", the usage of monopthongs when stressed. The letter " а " also acquires a sound similar to standard Ukrainian " е " when not stressed and preceded by a palatised consonant.
In contrast to Southeastern, which is the literary standard of Ukrainian within Ukraine, Southwestern is common within the Ukrainian diaspora, much of which comes from Western Ukraine. [1] The Southwestern dialects contain more archaisms than the Southeastern dialects, but do not use the same archaic vowel system as the Northern dialects.
The exact origins of the Southeastern dialects is a matter of some debate. Vsevolod Hantsov [] and Olena Kurylo argued that they originated from speakers of the other two dialects during the Ukrainian settlement of the Wild Fields [], while Leonid Bulakhovskyi [] and Fedot Zhylko [] have asserted that the Southeastern dialects directly descend from the Polanians.
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