Jabłonkowanie

{{Short description|Merger of sibilants in Polish dialects}}

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Jabłonkowanie ({{IPA|pl|jabwɔŋkɔˈvaɲɛ|lang}}) or siakanie ({{IPA|pl|ɕaˈkaɲɛ|lang}}) is a regional phonological feature of the Polish language. It consists of the merger of the series of retroflex sibilants {{IPA|/ʂ/, /t͡ʂ/, /ʐ/, /d͡ʐ/|}} {{angle bracket|sz, cz, ż, dż}} and palatal sibilants {{IPA|/ɕ/, /t͡ɕ/, /ʑ/, /d͡ʑ/|}} {{angle bracket|ś, ć, ź, dź}} into a phonetically-intermediate series {{IPA|[ʃʲ], [t͡ʃʲ], [ʒʲ], [d͡ʒʲ]}} (sometimes written {{angle bracket|śz, ćz, źż, dźż}})."Jabłonkowanie." In: Stanisław Dubisz, Halina Karaś, Nijola Kolis, Dialekty i gwary polskie. Wyd. I. Warszawa: Wiedza Powszechna, 1995, p. 62. {{ISBN|83-2140989-X}}.

It is named after the {{ill|Jabłonków subdialect|pl|Gwara jabłonkowska}} of Polish (named after the town of Jabłonków in Cieszyn Silesia). It occurs in a number of other Polish subdialects.

The feature is linked to the process of dispalatalization (reducing of the number of palatalized consonants) similar to the phenomena of {{lang|pl|mazurzenie}} and {{ill|kaszubienie|pl}} in other dialects.{{cite book |last=Rospond |first=Stanisław |author-link=Stanisław Rospond |date=1973 |title=Gramatyka historyczna języka polskiego |pages=112–113 |language=pl |location=Warszawa |publisher=Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe }}