Ukrainian dialects

West Polissian dialects include Podlachian subdialects spoken in Podlachia in Poland.

The language spoken by most of them is based on the Galician dialect of Ukrainian from the first half of the twentieth century.

It often contains many loanwords from the local language as well (e.g. снікерси, snikersy, for "sneakers" in the United States[15]).

It includes dialectal words of central Ukrainian with frequent inclusion of Russian vocabulary, in particular for modern concepts and items.

[citation needed] However Rusyn is considered by some linguists to be a separate language.

Map of Ukrainian dialects and subdialects (2005)
Northern group
Southeastern group
Southwestern group
The Ukrainian ( Ruthenian ) language in the Second Polish Republic according to the 1921 census
Geographic distribution of the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire according to the 1897 census
Russian "dialectological map" of 1914. Territory inhabited by Ukrainian-speakers in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires is shaded in green. The language was called Ruthenian in Austria-Hungary and "Little Russian" or "Malorussian dialect" in the Russian Empire.
"Map of South-Russian accents and dialects" (1871). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ukrainian language was categorized by Russian academics as a derivative of Russian language referred to as "South-Russian" or "Little-Russian". [ 16 ]