Southern Borderlands dialect

Southern Borderlands dialect is a dialect of the Polish language, spoken by the Polish minority in Ukraine. It is considered a branch of the Lesser Poland dialect by Zofia Kurzowa.

Phonology
The main differences in pronunciation lie within the consonant system. Some speakers speak with an accent according to the pronunciation of Ukrainian cognates.
 * 1) Standard Polish, spelled <ł>, is pronounced , and standard  is palatalized, yielding , like in the Northern Borderlands dialect.
 * 2) Standard Polish, spelled , may be palatalized, yielding
 * 3) The Southern Borderlands dialect differentiates  and, spelled respectively in Polish as  and 
 * 4) The standard Polish palatal sibilants and affricates,, , , and  (spelled ,<ś>, <ź>, <ć>, and  respectively) are pronounced , , , and.

The phoneme charts are as follows: