Pokuttia–Bukovina dialect

[1] The dialect is locally spoken in some regions in Western Ukraine south of the Dniester and east of the Carpathian Mountains (on the territory of the Chernivtsi Oblast excluding its extremely western regions, and in the eastern part of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast).

The Moldavian state had appeared by the mid-14th century, eventually expanding its territory all the way to the Black Sea.

When Moldavia established its control over part of Pokuttia and Bukovina, there occurred a process of Romanianization.

The dialect preserved several archaic endings and soft declension, and certain lexical peculiarities, including Romanianisms.

The expansion of ancient Pokuttian phonetic features in the 14th-16th centuries in western Podolia contributed to the formation of a broader group of Dniester dialects.