Northern zone of speeches of Nadvirnyan district of Ivano-Frankivsk oblast

In the article on the material of the mapped dialect phenomena of different structural levels in the dialects of settlements of Nadvirna district, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast areological processes in the northern zone of Nadvirna are described, in particular, identified zonal and island areas of the northern zone and the distribution of Pokutia areas are studied. With the help of descriptive, comparative, linguistic and geographical methods it was revealed that for a hundred years Pokutia dialect has significantly reduced its territory of functioning in the Nadvirna region. The article states that the post-graphic interpretation of Pokutia areas fully confirms the opinion of Yu. V. Shevelyov about the transitional status of Pokutia dialect between Hutsul and Transnistria ones. It is determined that border line drawn between the Gavrylivka – Parysche – Lisna Velesnytsia – Strymba – Loyeva dialects is apparently the main dividing line between the Pokut and Transnistria dialects, from it to the northwest to the Strymba River and north-east to the Kolomyia district. mixed-transitional dialects of the Pokutia – Transnistrian type. The conditional line between Loyev – Krasna – Dobrotiv – Lanchyn – Sadzhavka dialects distinguishes between Hutsul and Pokut dialects, and dialects to the north of it can be considered mixed-transitional dialects of the Pokutia – Hutsul type, which confirm the observations of predecessors.