Chornej K. The Ukrainian dialects of Northern Bucovyna (phonetics).

The dissertation is devoted to the complex analysis of the bucovynean and hutsul dia-lects of Northern Bucovyna, which has been carried out at the phonetic level. It looks at some factors of forming and functioning of the dialects of Suceava region. The studies have shown some complementary phenomena in bucovynean and hutsul dialectal continuums of Northern Bucovyna. A special attention is focused on the analysis of the differences between bucovynean and hutsul dialects of Northern Bucovyna. Regional phonetic peculiarities of dialects under stu-dy are explored carefully, being a finding of search in the areals where these dialects occur. Iso-glottic lines extension to the neighboring Ukrainian dialects on the territory of Ukraine is tra-ced. The results obtained made it possible to classify the dialects of Suceava region into bucovynean and hutsul ones.