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The Masovian dialect (Polish: dialekt mazowiecki), also written Mazovian, is the dialect of Polish spoken in Mazovia and historically related regions, in northeastern Poland.^[1] It is the most distinct of the Polish dialects and the most expansive.^[1]

Masovian
dialekty mazowieckie
Native to	Poland
Region	Mazovian Voivodeship, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Lublin Voivodeship, Warmia-Mazuria Voivodeship
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic West Slavic Lechitic Polish Masovian
Writing system	Latin (Polish alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
Linguasphere	`53-AAA-cc (varieties: 53-AAA-cca to 53-AAA-ccu)`

Mazovian dialects may exhibit such features as mazurzenie, sandhi (intervocalic voicing of obstruents on word boundaries), and asynchronous palatal pronunciation of labial consonants (so-called softening). The Kurpie region has some of the most distinctive phonetic features due to isolation. Characteristics include:

Depalatalization of velars before /ɛ/ and palatalization of velars before historical /ɛ̃/; e.g. standard Polish rękę, nogę ('arm', 'leg', in the accusative case) is rendered [ˈrɛŋkʲɛ], [ˈnɔɡʲɛ] respectively instead of [ˈrɛŋkɛ], [ˈnɔɡɛ];
/li/ sequences realized [lɪ] instead of [lʲi];
merger of the retroflex series sz, ż, cz, dż into the alveolar s, z, c, dz;
/ɨ/ > /i/ before certain consonants;
the Old Polish dual number marker -wa continues to be attached to verbs;
Standard Polish /ɔ̃/ and /ɛ̃/ merged with /u/ and /a/ respectively, in most situations;
certain instances of a > e;
[mʲ] > [ɲ]

Masovian dialects also contain certain vocabulary that is distinct from the standard Polish language and shares common characteristics with the Kashubian language.^[2]

Subdialects

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Mazovian dialects include but are not limited to subdialects^[3] of:

Białystok dialect (Polish: gwara białostocka)
Suwałki dialect (Polish: gwara suwalska)
Warmia dialect (Polish: gwara warmińska)
Kurpie dialect (Polish: gwara kurpiowska)
Masurian dialects (Polish: gwara mazurska)
Malbork-Lubawa dialect (Polish: gwara malborsko-lubawska)
Ostróda dialect (Polish: gwara ostródzka)
Near Mazovian dialect (Polish: gwara mazowsza bliższego)
Far Mazovian dialect (Polish: gwara mazowsza dalszego)
Warsaw dialect (Polish: gwara warszawska)

References

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^ ^a ^b "Gwary polskie – Dialekt mazowiecki". gwarypolskie.uw.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 2011-04-14. Retrieved 2014-10-17.

^ "Slavic languages – Encyclopædia Britannica". britannica.com. Retrieved 2014-10-17.

^ Halina Karas, Gwary Polskie, Dialects and gwary in Poland Archived 2011-04-14 at the Wayback Machine

Bibliography

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Barbara Bartnicka (red.): Polszczyzna Mazowsza i Podlasia. Łomża-Warszawa 1993.
Anna Basara: Studia nad wokalizmem w gwarach Mazowsza. Wrocław-Warszawa-Kraków 1965.
Anna Cegieła: Polski Słownik terminologii i gwary teatralnej. Wrocław 1992.
Jadwiga Chludzińska-Świątecka: Ze studiów nad słowotwórstwem gwar mazowieckich. Poradnik Językowy, z. 6, 1961, s. 253–258.
Karol Dejna: Dialekty polskie. Ossolineum 1993.
Barbara Falińska (red.): Gwary Mazowsza, Podlasia i Suwalszczyzny.ɴ I. Filipów, pow. Suwałki, Białystok, 2004.
Województwo płockie. Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź-Płock 1984.

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