West Polesian microlanguage

West Polesian
Language family	Indo-European Slavic East Slavic West Polesian
Writing system	Cyrillic Alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

West Polesian (yellow area) within the Belarusian dialect system

West Polesian (marked with number 1, blue area) amongst the Ukrainian dialects

The Polesian microlanguage, (Native name: Заходышнополіська волода, Zakhodyshnopoliska voloda; Ukrainian: Західнополіська мікромова, Zakhidnopolis'ka mikromova, Belarusian: Заходнепалеская мікрамова, Zakhodniepalieskaya mikramova) or dialect is spoken in Southwestern Belarus, in Northwestern Ukraine and in the bordering regions of Poland. It is also considered a Slavic microlanguage, in effect a transitional language between the Ukrainian and the Belarusian.

If you want to know about Polesian, I can tell you the exact composition of our language. It is 40 percent Ukrainian, 5 percent Belarusian, 5 percent Polish, and 50 percent Polesian. — Vasily Ptashits (Василий Пташиц), Intermarium

West Polesian is mostly used in everyday speech, though attempts have been made in 1990s to develop a standard written language for the dialects.

See also

• Surzhyk
• Trasianka