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The Lake dialect, called '''ežerina''' by its native speakers, is the last fragment of Old Southern dialects survived. It was spoken in [[w:Iława County|Iława County]] (''īlavina žemia'', ''īlava'' in Ežerina). Nowadays its native speakers can still be found only in two small villages: Skuteluokē ([[w:Skitławki|Skitławki]] in Polish) and Geisiava ([[w:Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship|Wielowieś]], where only two speakers remain). The dialect is quite distinct from the Pomorian standard and is not mutually intelligible with it. Ežerina share more similarities with Suvilkian, from which it probably evolved. It was also heavily influenced by Polish and German and many loanwords entered the dialect from them.