Transnistrian Ukrainian dialect

The Dniestrian Ukrainian dialect (Ukrainian: Наддністрянський говір, romanized: Naddnistryanskyi hovir), Opillia dialect (Ukrainian: опі́льський го́вір) or Galician dialect (Ukrainian: га́лицький го́вір) is a dialect of Ukrainian spoken in the western part of Ukraine. The Dniestrian Ukrainian dialect is typically grouped together with other southwestern dialects of Ukrainian.[1]

Areas of Ukraine by dialect: in the light red area (number 9) Dniestran dialect is spoken

Lexical differences between Dniestrian dialect and standard Ukrainian:[2]

Transnistrian Ukrainian Standard Ukrainian English
баняк (banyak) каструля (kastrulya) sauce pan
бульба (bulba) картопля (kartoplya) potato
бузьок (buzyok) лелека (leleka) stork
твар (tvar) обличчя (oblychchya) face
писок (pisok) рот (rot) mouth
кугут (kuhut) півень (piven) rooster
цера (tsera) шкіра (shkira) skin

References

  1. "Наддністрянський говір". litopys.org.ua (in Ukrainian). 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  2. "Наддністрянський говір". Енциклопедія Сучасної України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 3 March 2023.
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