Bydgoszcz dialect
| Bydgoszcz dialect | |
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| gwara bydgoska | |
| Pronunciation | [ɡvara bɨdˈɡɔska] |
| Native to | Poland |
| Region | Bydgoszcz, northern Kuyavia |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
The Bydgoszcz dialect (Polish: gwara bydgoska) is an urban subdialect (gwara miejska) of the Polish language characteristic of the inhabitants of the city of Bydgoszcz (German: Bromberg). It belongs to the northern part of the Greater Poland dialect group and developed in a transitional linguistic zone, bordering dialect areas of Kuyavia to the south, Kociewie and Bory Tucholskie from the north, Chełmno-Dobrzyń from the east, and Krajna as well as Northern Greater Poland (Pałuki) from the west. The dialect is slowly losing many features and replacing them with those from Standard Polish.