Українські звичаї та обряди у світлі діалектних текстів (на матеріалі українських південнобессарабських говірок)

Abstract

The article deals with the description of traditions and rites in the Ukrainian dialects spoken in the villages of multilingual Southern Bessarabia. The author describes them through the prism of dialectal texts gathered from different bearers of these steppe dialects, gives reasons for the necessity to use dialectal texts as a source of cultural information. It is considered that the identity of traditions of local Ukrainians based on the preservation of dialectal origin and on the ethnic, dialectal and language interaction.