Bukovyna dialect of the village Yuzhynets

The article deals with description of one dialect as a system. The purpose of of this study is to describe the main features of the dialect v. Yuzhynets, manifested in oral dialectal speech, at all language levels. Attention is drawn to typical phonetic, morphological and syntactic dialectal features. The author’s own records from this dialect (2015) and dictionary materials are the source base of the study. The interview method was used to record the material. We created a relaxed communication situation and encouraged speakers to talk about different topics. The author applied the method of continuous selection of linguistic facts from transcribed texts, the method of their synthesis, description, comparison and comparison with other dialects and literary language. It should be emphasized that the speech of villagers of different sexes and ages has all the typical features of speech, but it differs from number and frequency. Naturally, most of these features are in the speech of the oldest villager. Тypical phonetic features: change and alternation of sounds, different nature of sounds compared to literary language. The features of word change of noun parts of speech and conjugation of verbs, morphological features of nouns (vacillation in the genus), adjectives (creation of degrees of comparison), dialectal forms of pronouns, numerals and adverbs are characterizes for the dialect morphological system. The peculiar prepositional-noun constructions in the syntactic structure of dialect speech, active use of dialectal conjunctions and amplifying particles are revealed. The manifestations of ancient original features of the Ukrainian language were observed: consistent use of the vocative form, remnants of the dual form, «honorable» plural, the forms plusquamperfect. Some previously unknown words and phrases have been found, they enriches the vocabulary of the dialect. It is specially noted that men’s speech is exposed to greater, but not critical external influence. The no significant external influences on the dialectal system were noted, despite the relative proximity village to the border regional territories. The obtained results make it possible to resistance of dialectal features to leveling and therefore this dialect is typical Bukovyna dialect. Some previously unrecorded tokens and phrases that supplement the vocabulary of the dialect are recorded. Keywords: dialect, Bukovyna dialects, typical dialect features, dialect speech, dialect text.