Aukštaitian dialect

Aukštaitian
	Aukštaičių tarmė
Native to	Lithuania
Region	Aukštaitija, Dzūkija and Suvalkija
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Baltic Eastern Lithuanian language Aukštaitian; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	auks1239[1]

Aukštaitian (Lithuanian: Aukštaičių tarmė) is one of the dialects of the Lithuanian language, spoken in ethnographic regions of Aukštaitija, Dzūkija and Suvalkija. It became the basis for the standard Lithuanian language.

Classification

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

Revised classification of the dialects, proposed in 1965 by linguists Zigmas Zinkevičius and Aleksas Girdenis, divides Aukštaitian dialect into three sub-dialects based on pronunciation of mixed diphthongs an, am, en, em and 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:

The Kaunas sub-dialect is spoken mostly in Suvalkija. This sub-dialect separates long and short vowels pretty well and properly stresses word endings.
The Šiauliai sub-dialect is spoken in a strip between Samogitia and Aukštaitija. This sub-dialect almost always shortens unaccented long vowels (dumẽlis instead of dūmelis – little smoke, vãgis instead of vagys – thieves, lãpu instead of lapų – leaves) and moves accent mark from the end of the word (ràsa instead of rasà – dew, tỹliu instead of tyliù – I am silent, žmònos instead of žmonõs – wives').

Southern Aukštaitian preserves the diphthong, but replaces ą and ę with ų and į (žųsis instead of žąsis – goose, skįsta instead of skęsta – drowns). It is spoken mostly in Dzūkija and therefore is known as Dzūkian dialect.

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). It is spoken mostly in Aukštaitija. It is further subdivided into six sub-dialects.

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References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Aukshtaitish". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Janina Jašinskienė, ed. (2005). Tradicijos. Iliustruota Lietuvos enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Kaunas: Šviesa. p. 55. ISBN 5-430-04158-0.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Aukshtaitish". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.