The Lwów dialect is a subdialect of the Polish language characteristic of the inhabitants of the city of Lviv, now in Ukraine. Based on the substratum of the Lesser Polish dialect, it was heavily influenced by borrowings from other languages spoken in Central Europe, notably German and Yiddish, but also by Czech, Ukrainian, and Hungarian. One of the peculiarities of the Lviv dialect was its popularity. Unlike many other dialects of the Polish language, it was not seen by its speakers as inferior to literary Polish or denoting people of humble origin. Because of that it was being used both by common people and university professors alike. It was also one of the first Polish dialects to be properly classified and to have a dictionary published. Despite that, the best known form of the Lviv dialect was the Bałak, a sociolect of the commoners, street hooligans and youngsters. Wikipedia [ - ]

The Lwów dialect is a subdialect of the Polish language characteristic of the inhabitants of the... [ + ]