Ramygalos šnekta lietuvių tarmių klasifikacijose: geolingvistinė analizė
Ramygala Subdialect in the Classifications of Lithuanian Dialects: Geolinguistic Analysis

Summary/Abstract: Based on the manuscript materials on dialects from the second half of the 20th century, the article presents the geolinguistic comparative study on the Ramygala subdialect. The heterogeneity of the area of the subdialect in question is first shown by its place in the classifications of Lithuanian dialects. Though the Ramygala subdialect falls to the so called First Eastern dialect according to the late 19th century classification of dialects by Antanas Baranauskas, it was actually closer to the Western Aukštaitian dialect. In later classifications of dialects a greater part of the area or even the whole area of the subdialect was attributed to the subdialects of Eastern Aukštaitian. The data collected and analysed in the study show that the unchanged (an, am, en, em; ą, ę) and narrowed (un, um, in, im; ų, į) mixed diphthongs and former nasal vowels were used in the area spoken by the Ramygala subdialect to a similar intensity. The eastern borders of the area of the subdialect tend to demonstrate the narrowing of these features, which is characteristic of eastern subdialects.

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