Bałach

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Bałach or Bałak is a distinct dialect of the Polish language spoken in the city of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine). Spoken commonly by various classes of the local society, it became almost extinct after 1945, when almost the entire population of the city became forcibly expelled, while their place was taken by immigrants from various parts of the Soviet Union.

The dialect included a large number of lexical borrowings from other languages spoken in Central Europe, notably German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Czech and Ukrainian. It also became one of the main source of Galicisms in the standard literary Polish language. Some elements of the dialect remain in use in contemporary Ukrainian spoken in modern Lviv.

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