Zróżnicowanie terytorialne północno-wschodniej polszczyzny kresowej
Territorial differentiation of north-east peripheral Polish

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the present paper is the characterization of the north-east peripheral Polish and its differentiation on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania [GDL], which in the first half of the XVIIth century comprised the found in the river-basin Dvina, Niemen, Prypeć and Upper Dniepr. Polish language which was spoken here, has been formed at he Belorussian-Lithuanan substrate and has developed numerous common features, but it was territorially differentiated with distinct domination of 1) metropolitan Wilno/Vilnius and its region. Apart from it, we can distinguished the following Polish regiolects in the territory of GDL: 2) Kowno/Kaunas, 3) Suwałki, 4) Podlasie – Grodno, 5) Polesie, 6) Nowogródek, 7) Minsk – Bobrujsk (central Berussian), 8) Mohylew – Witebsk (East Belorussian), 9) Smolensk, 10) Inflants (Latvian) areas. Beyond the limits of present-day Poland (Suwałki, Podlasie areas), the Polish spoken in the region of Wilno/Vilnius has been presented best of all and can be considered representative for the north-east peripheral Polish language. Due to this fact, it was discussed in the present paper most profoundly.

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