ENThe article analyses speech peculiarities of cantabile folklore in the dialect of Northern Highlands of Lithuania (Aukštaitija). It is concluded that the main dialect peculiarities - the reduction of diphthongs in the end of the word, the neutralisation of unstressed vowels, etc. - in cantabile folklore are reflected more evidently than the reduction of short vowels at the end of the word or the equivalents of diphthongs am, an, em, en, etc. 1.