Z fonetyki Listów Swięteo Oyca Partheniusza (1643)
Selected remarks on the phonetics of Listy… [Letters…] (1643)

Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to a selection of issues concerning the phonetics of the 17thcentury Kievan variety of Polish, analyzed in the context of the 17thcentury standard Polish and its other regional varieties. Polish translations of the letters written by the Patriarch of Constantinople Parthenius I to the Kievan Metropolitan Piotr Mohyla were used as research material. The vocalic analysis covers the follo­wing aspects: the raised vowels, the reduction of oN into uN, the alternation between każdy and kożdy, as well as the nasal vowel articulation. The paper also discusses the following consonantal features: the distortion in the palatalization of consonants, the phonetic realization of -ou-, -au- in borrowings, the presence of the palatalized ch’ – and the problematic spelling of l – ł. No significant phonetic contrasts have been detected between Listy... [‘Letters...’] and other texts written in the Kievan variety of Polish. This allows a conclusion that the phonetics of the translated letters is representative of the Kievan Polish of the 1640s. This variety, on the other hand, exhibits the influence of the standard Polish as well as of Russian,

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