К вопросу о польских островных говорах

In this paper the concept of insular Polish dialect is applied not only to migrant dialects, but also (by the example of Polish dialects of Ukraine) to the vast compact in the past territory of the “mother” dialect, which now has been reduced to separate islands. The linguistic features of two Polish dialects in Ukraine (the villages of Sharovechka find Matkivtsi near Khmelnitsky) are compared with the linguistic features of two Polish dialects, the speakers of which were forcibly resettled from Ukraine to Kazakhstan (the villages of Ozernoe and Stepnoe near Kokchetav).