West Polesian microlanguage
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West Polesian (yellow area) within the Belarusian dialect system
West Polesian (marked with number 1, blue area) amongst the Ukrainian dialects
The Polesian microlanguage,[1] (Native name: Заходышнополіська волода, Zakhodyshnopoliska voloda; Ukrainian: Західнополіська мікромова, Zakhidnopolis'ka mikromova, Belarusian: Заходнепалеская мікрамова, Zakhodniepalieskaya mikramova ) or dialect is spoken in Southwestern Belarus, in Northwestern Ukraine and in the bordering regions of Poland. It is also considered a Slavic microlanguage, in effect a transitional language between the Ukrainian and the Belarusian.
If you want to know about Polesian, I can tell you the exact composition of our language. It is 40 percent Ukrainian, 5 percent Belarusian, 5 percent Polish, and 50 percent Polesian. — Vasily Ptashits (Василий Пташиц), Intermarium [1]
West Polesian is mostly used in everyday speech, though attempts have been made in 1990s to develop a standard written language for the dialects.
See also
References
- 1 2 Marek Jan Chodakiewicz (2012). Intermarium: The Land Between the Black and Baltic Seas. Vasily Ptashits (Василий Пташиц) and the Polesian nationalism (Transaction Publishers). p. 493. ISBN 1412847745. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
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