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East Carpathian (native name - ''kārpāhirēta'', '' | East Carpathian (native name - ''kārpāhirēta'', ''karparheita'', ''kārpāhrõuta'' depending on the dialect, also ''ettekārpāhrõuta'') is one of the three recognized [[Carpathian languages|Carpathian languages]] spoken by the Carpathian people (natively - ''kārpāhiak'' or ''kārpājoak'') in Ukraine and in the [[w:Bieszczady County|Bieszczady County]] in Southern Poland. It has approximately 30 000 native speakers left according to 2001 Ukrainian census, which is less than a 0.1% of the total population in Ukraine. According to the 2011 Polish census 785 Carpathians live in the Bieszczady County. | ||
West Carpathian was influenced by Western dialects of Ukrainian and Polish, but in general the East Carpathian dialects preserved more native vocabulary than other Carpathian dialects. Typologically it is between [[w:Fusional language|fusional]] and [[w:Agglutunative language|agglutinative]] languages and is different from surrounding Slavic languages. It has a complex inflection system for nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence. | West Carpathian was influenced by Western dialects of Ukrainian and Polish, but in general the East Carpathian dialects preserved more native vocabulary than other Carpathian dialects. Typologically it is between [[w:Fusional language|fusional]] and [[w:Agglutunative language|agglutinative]] languages and is different from surrounding Slavic languages. It has a complex inflection system for nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence. | ||