5.5 DIALECT

            The Lasowiaks dialect is a mixture of Masovian and Lesser Poland genetic features, therefore it is considered a mixed dialect. Its main features are: word-to-word phonetics and „mazurzenie”. „Mazurzenie” was characteristic of most of the area of Lasowiackie, but at the beginning of the 20th century it started to disappear. Other characteristic features are, for example: adding suffixes to adverbs and pronouns („dzisiok”, „jakisik”, „cosik”, „któryś” = today, some, something, some), diminutives (as in borderland dialects), suffix - „ować” for verb forms.

            In the Lasowiaks dialect, there are words that occurred or still occur in Małopolska and relate to a large extent to old realities (e.g. home life, old customs, tools or costumes).

Karaś H. (ed.) N / a Polish dialects and dialects. Internet compendium, http://www.dialektologia.uw.edu.pl/index.php?l1=mapa-serwisu&l2=&l3=&l4=lasowiacy-gwara-regionu-mwr,

Wojtowicz J., O Lasowiakach i gwarze lasowskiej. Porównanie wniosków etnografa i językoznawcy, „Etnografia Polska", 1967.