Masovian dialect group

The Masovian dialect group (Polish: dialekt mazowiecki), also Mazovian, is a dialect group of the Polish language spoken in Mazovia and historically related regions, in northeastern Poland.

[1] It is the most distinct of the Polish dialects and the most expansive.

[1] Mazovian dialects may exhibit such features as mazurzenie, sandhi (intervocalic voicing of obstruents on word boundaries), and asynchronous palatal pronunciation of labial consonants (so-called softening).

Characteristics include: Masovian dialects also contain certain vocabulary that is distinct from the standard Polish language and shares common characteristics with the Kashubian language.

[2] Descended from the language of the Mazovians,[3][4] the dialects are:[5] Features that can be found in various intensities and distributions in the region include:[6]