Between Three Languages, Dialects and Forms of Mixed Speech: Dialect and Language Contacts in Ukrainian-Belarusian Transitional Area Salvatore Del Gaudio Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine This is a section of Contributi italiani al XVI Congresso Internazionale degli Slavisti(DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6453-723-8) by Maria Chiara Ferro, Laura Salmon, Giorgio Ziffer Firenze University Press Firenze 2018 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-723-8.09

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The territory roughly delimitated by the rivers Dnipro, Sož and Desna, geo-politically set between Ukraine, Belarus’ and not far from the Russian Federation, presents a particularly interesting language situation. In this geo-dialectal “triangle” coexist and interact local dialects – also known as Ukrainian-Belarusian ‘transitional’ dialects – three standard languages (i.e. Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian), and various forms of language mix. In this article we primarily intend to examine some fundamental issues related to dialectal contact and language distribution typical of this border area.

 Ukrainian-Belarusian Transitional Dialects Dialect / Language Contact East Slavic Dialectology Sociolinguistics

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