page_title: Lesser Polish dialect
hierarchical_section_title: Lesser Polish dialect
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Zasięgi dialektów polskich wg S. Urbańczyka (zmodyfikowane), na podstawie Gwary polskie. Przewodnik multimedialny pod redakcją H. Karaś
context_page_description: The Lesser Polish dialect is a cluster of regional varieties of the Polish language around the Lesser Poland historical region. The exact area is difficult to delineate due to the expansion its features and the existence of transitional subdialects.
  Common subdialects of the Lesser Polish dialect include Podhale, Kraków, Lwów, Sącz, Żywiec, Kielce and some others.
  The common traits of the Lesser Polish dialect include:
  Mazurzenie
  voiceless-to-voicing shift, including word boundaries
  differentiated nasalisation of ą and ę in different parts of the area
  pronunciation of -enka suffix as rather than
  A more aggressive merger of stop+fricative consonant clusters into affricates. This happens in standard Polish before obstruents, but in Lesser Polish, it may happen before sonorants, including vowels: trzysta is pronounced as czysta vs. "cz-szysta" in colloquial Standard or "t-szysta" in standard speech.
  frequent usage of initial syllable stress, also oxytonic stress in vocative case
  frequent usage of grammatical particle "że" in imperative mood
context_section_description: The Lesser Polish dialect (Polish: dialekt małopolski) is a cluster of regional varieties of the Polish language around the Lesser Poland historical region. The exact area is difficult to delineate due to the expansion its features and the existence of transitional subdialects.
  Common subdialects of the Lesser Polish dialect include Podhale, Kraków, Lwów, Sącz, Żywiec, Kielce and some others.
  The common traits of the Lesser Polish dialect include:
  Mazurzenie
  voiceless-to-voicing shift, including word boundaries (niosłeś->nióześ, kot leci -> kod_leci)
  differentiated nasalisation (or lack thereof) of ą and ę in different parts of the area
  pronunciation of -enka suffix (typical of many feminine nouns) as εŋka rather than εnka ("dziewczynka", "sukienka")
  A more aggressive merger of stop+fricative consonant clusters into affricates. This happens in standard Polish before obstruents ( "drzwi" → "dżwi"), but in Lesser Polish, it may happen before sonorants, including vowels: trzysta ('three hundred') is pronounced as czysta ('clean' fem.) vs. "cz-szysta" in colloquial Standard or "t-szysta" in standard speech.
  frequent usage of initial syllable stress, also oxytonic stress in vocative case (as opposed to paroxytonic stress common in other varieties of Polish)
  frequent usage of grammatical particle "że" in imperative mood ("weźże" vs. "weź" - take)
caption: Map of Polish dialects
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