Cechy fonetyczne polszczyzny południowokresowej w listach metropolity kijowskiego Jana (Hioba) Boreckiego z lat 1624–1629
Phonetic features of the Polish language of the Southern Borderland in the letters by Jan (Hiob) Borecki, the metropolitan of Kiev, from the years 1624–1629

Summary/Abstract: The article includes graphical and phonetic description of two letters written by Jan (Hiob) Borecki, the Orthodox metropolitan of Kiev in the years 1620–1631. Addressed to prince Krzysztof Radziwiłł, the letters dated 1624 and 1629 were preserved as manuscripts, but probably they are not autographs. In terms oflanguage, they represent the Polish language of the Southern Borderland in the 17th century – the historical regional variety of the Polish language of former South-Eastern Borderland, influenced by the Ruthenian (Ukrainian) language. Linguistic analysis, restricted to depicting the phonetic regionalisms of the Borderland, has shown that the examined letters authenticate many significant features of the variety in question, such as for example: transition of the eń group into ę while before fricative consonant s, occurrence of the final ć in the place of c, transition of ś into R before C, the way C was used before vowels other than i, mixing of consonants l and ł, forms including r in the place of rz as well as hypercorrect forms including rz (or rż) in the place of r, forms with strong ke, ky and other groups. However, there are some features that are characteristic for the Polish language of the Southern Borderland, for example reduction and narrowing of an unstressed vowel which are not confirmed in the analysed texts.

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