CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES OF THE MIDDLE BUG AREA DIALECTS

Abstract

Phonetic and vocabulary-semantic features оf the Middle Bug area dialects functioning at the border of the South-Western and South-Eastern dialects of the Ukrainian language are described in the article. There are native speech examples to illustrate dialect unit’s features. Records and notes of the dialect speech done in 74 settlements of the Middle Bug area during 2013 – 2016 are the source of the practical material. The examined names and the dialect speech examples are represented by means of the common phonetic transcription for recording the Ukrainian literary and dialect speech (the transcription is presented in the first volume of the Atlas of the Ukrainian Language). The focus of interest is agricultural vocabulary. Lexemes widespread in Middle Bug area dialects are analyzed. The article expands the empirical base of Ukrainian dialectology, complements the characterization of the Eastern Podilian dialects of the Podillya dialect of the South-western group and the Western Steppe dialects of the Steppe dialect of the South-eastern group of the Ukrainian language.

Keywords

• лексема
• семема
• ознака
• риса
• говір
• говірка
• середньонадбузький ареал
• середнє надбужжя