Northern Borderlands dialect

Northern Borderlands dialect is a dialect of the Polish language, spoken by the Polish minorities in Lithuania and in northwestern Belarus.

Phonology
The Northern Borderlands dialect retains the same vowel system as standard Polish, however there is often vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. Most of the major differences appear in the realization of consonants. See Polish phonology for more information on allophones.


 * 1) Standard Polish, spelled <ł>, is pronounced , and standard  is palatalized, yielding , like in the Southern Borderlands dialect.
 * 2) The standard Polish palatal sibilants and affricates,, , , and  (spelled ,<ś>, <ź>, <ć>, and  respectively) are pronounced , , , and.

The phoneme charts are as follows:

In media
This accent can be heard much in Lithuania. TVP has a station in Vilnius, and the podcast TakiTalk features many speakers with this accent.