Šiaurės panevėžiškių tarmė ir jos atspindžiai smulkiojoje tautosakoje
ENThe purpose of the article n with the help of 358 examples of the minor folklore published in Ona BluzmienI selection of folklore and memoirs titled "Linelius roviau, dainavau", and 40 samples of "Joniškėlio apylinkių šnektos tekstai" - to get the reader acquainted with rather rich examples of minor folklore of the northern Aukštaitian dialect of Panevėžys, and to discuss how the examples reflect the Aukštaitian dialect of Panevėžys. The texts of the northern Aukštaitian dialect of Panevėžys recorded in the analysed selections of folklore are presented not in a dialectological transcription but in a simplified spelling. However, even such a way of text presentation allows readers to see or simply ifeeli the main peculiarities of the dialect, therefore, they could be used as a dialectological material by researchers of the dialects. It could be stated that the examples of the minor folklore of the northern Aukštaitian dialect of Panevėžys discussed in the article - proverbs, bywords, riddles - resemble closely the spoken dialect of the northern Aukštaitian dialect of Panevėžys with their linguistic peculiarities and are beautifully integrated into its linguistic system. No doubt, by not introducing additional signs of dialectological transcription, the quality of dialectal forms suffered in some places n there are no difficult markers of accent, the reduced vowels at the end of the word are not introduced, the attention is not paid to particularly subtle phenomena of vocalization, consonantism, neutralization, however, the main peculiarities of the dialect (phonetic and non-phonetic) are reflected quite well in the analysed texts.
