Dzūkian dialect
Dzūkian dialect, known in academic works as Southern Aukštaitian dialect, is one of the three main sub-dialects of the Aukštaitian dialect of Lithuanian language. Dzūkian dialect is spoken in Dzūkija, southern Lithuania. Its most distinctive feature is replacing t, d before i, į, y, ie and č, dž with c and dz (cik instead of (tik – just, (dzidumas instead of (didumas – size, (pyn instead of (pinti – to braid, (sveciai instead of (svečiai – guests). Since the region borders Slavic lands, the dialect has many Slavic loanwords and barbarisms.
References
- Janina Jašinskienė, ed. (2005). Tradicijos. Iliustruota Lietuvos enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Kaunas: Šviesa. p. 56. ISBN 5-430-04158-0.
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