Aukštaitian dialect

Revised classification of the dialects, proposed in 1965 by linguists Zigmas Zinkevičius and Aleksas Girdenis, divides the Aukštaitian dialect into three sub-dialects based on pronunciation of the mixed diphthongs an, am, en, em and the ogonek vowels ą and ę: Western Aukštaitian – most similar to standard Lithuanian – preserves both the diphthongs and the vowels.

It is further subdivided into two sub-dialects: Southern Aukštaitian preserves the diphthong, but replaces ą and ę with ų and į (žųsis instead of žąsis 'goose', skįsta instead of skęsta 'drowns').

Eastern Aukštaitian replaces the diphthongs with either un, um, in, im or on, om, ėn, ėm (pasumda instead of pasamdo 'hiring', romstis instead of ramstis 'support').

The ogonek vowels are replaced with either ų, į or o, ę/ė (grųštas or groštas instead of grąžtas 'drill', grįšt instead of gręžti 'to drill').

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Map of the sub-dialects of the Aukštaitian dialect (Zinkevičius and Girdenis, 1965).
Western Aukštaitian
Sub-dialect of Šiauliai
Sub-dialect of Kaunas
Sub-dialect of Klaipėda Region
Eastern Aukštaitian
Sub-dialect of Panevėžys
Sub-dialect of Širvintos
Sub-dialect of Anykščiai
Sub-dialect of Kupiškis
Sub-dialect of Utena
Sub-dialect of Vilnius
Southern Aukštaitian
Southern Aukštaitian or Dzūkian sub-dialect