The rate of change of language in the population of Ciechanowiec in the Podlasie region

Abstract

Ciechanowiec is one of the oldest cities in the Podlasie region, located in the south – western part of the region. The town is situated in the region of the Masovian dialect, with many features characteristic of the north-eastern Polish dialects. The earlier Polish language, which has preserved vocabulary and grammatical features recorded in the eighteenth-century works of Christopher Kluk (naturalist from Ciechanowiec), is at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first century rapidly disappearing. It is displaced by the nationwide language, heard on radio and television.