Southern Greater Poland dialect

As in other Greater Polish dialects, voicing of word-final consonants before vowels and liquids is present here. Also typical of Greater Polish dialects, mazuration is not present.{{cite web |url= http://www.dialektologia.uw.edu.pl/index.php?l1=opis-dialektow&l2=dialekt-wielkopolski&l3=wielkopolska-poludniowa&l4=wielkopolska-pld-gwara-regionu-cmr|last= Sierociuk|first= Jerzy|title= Dialektologia Polska|year= 2010|website= dialektologia.uw.edu.pl|access-date=19 July 2024}}

-y often diphtongizes to -yj, as in many Greater Polish subdialects, typically word-finally in the south but sometimes also word-medially in the west. A few instances of i after a soft consonant have shifted to y (and softness is retained): we chliywie; kuknyliy; mówiliy. Final -aj shifts to -ej.

Slanted é raises to y. Slanted ó raises to u. Slanted á raises to o.

Regionally, Word-medial -ę- denasalizes and raises: czyść (część). ę word-finally denasalizes to -e, and word-medially as well, except when before a sibilant, where some nasality is retained: bede (będę), but czyⁿś (część). ą word-finally is typically realized as -om, -óm. Nasal consonants can cause raising of e to generally y, but sometimes o or i. The ending -nąć and its inflections can shift to -nóć or sometimes -nóńć.

o labializes to ô not only word-initially, but also sometimes word-medially or word-finally.

n, d, t can palatalize when near e, i, y (notably after these vowels, when typically they need to be before them): malinia (malina), but palatalization after y is rare: pierzynia||pierzyna.. ł is often lost, especially intervocalically: syszaam (słyszałam). kt shifts to cht. trz is simplified to cz. Some consonants assimilate in softness: dźwi (drzwi); przyjśli (przyszli). Sometimes j is inserted before palatal consonants: zajś (zaś). Final m is sporadically lost: poty (potem).

Many uncontracted forms are retained, usually amongst older speakers: grajesz (grasz).

Southern Greater Polish has many features common to other Greater Polish dialects.

Nouns retain -ewi as the masculine dative singular of soft-stem nouns: koniewi (koniowi).

Soft-stem adjectives are often formed with -ewy: majewy (majowy).

The past tense of verbs can appear without -ł- due to sound changes. -ty is used in place of other passive participle endings: zmołty (zmielony). As a result of sound changes, the imperative is usually formed with -ej instead of -aj. Older speakers also sometimes use żym in past tense constructions. The first person plural verb ending -ma is found, but is rare.

This dialect has word-formation process common to Greater Polish dialects generally.

-cha is a common augmentative suffix.

-y and -ki are productive adjectival endings: dłużyki (długi). -iśki and -itki are common adjective diminutive endings.

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