Cechy polszczyzny północnokresowej utrwalone w poezji Feliksa Mieszczańskiego ze wsi Kadysz na Białorusi
The North-Eastern Polish dialects preserved in the poetry of Feliks Mieszczański from Kadysz village (Republic of Belarus)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the variety of Polish spoken by the inhabitants of Kadysz – a village located in the closed border zone at the junction of three state borders: Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. Its population preserved the local culture and Polish as a means of everyday communication, due to the fact that during the Period of Partitions in Poland this area never became part of the Russian Empire, but remained part of the Kingdom of Poland, and today it is isolated from the Republic of Belarus by the closed border zone. The observations are based on the analysis of Feliks Mieszczański’s texts – a man who spent all his life in Kadysz village. He has never learned the literary variety of Polish or literary Russian, because of a mild mental retardation

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