Hujpisówi

Hujpisówi - a rare Polish dialect. Hujpisówi was a local dialect mostly used in the Subcarpathian region of Poland, circa 1890 (back then Przemyśl and Rzeszów voivodeships, and parts of Krosno, Tarnobrzeg and Tarnów voivodeships). It is based on using as many letters of the Polish alphabet, such as "ć" and "sz", often simplifying the word. It was used by wealthy and known people, as it was called the "pride" of the Polish language. It is said they wanted to express how important the language is important, thus there is a vast variety of Polish letters used. To this day we don't know the entirety of the dialect, as some words are undecipherable, such as "dźiwuja" or "śpijukolot".

Back then, Ignacy Matuszkiewicz wrote a Polish-Hujpisówi dictionary, sadly, there are very few existing exemplars and most of them are in a really bad condition. The dialect was slowly forgotten as it was often not understood by foreigners who learned Polish and the poor part of Poles. During WWII it was a tradition to learn it in elementary school, today however, only two schools in the whole country offer the possibility of learning the dialect, the slowly decreasing popularity was caused by the fact the dialect was not a necessary subject and many kids didn't choose to learn it.

In 1910, Stefan Żeromski wrote a poem in the Hujpisówi dialect, it is not widely known, and it is not read at schools anymore.

"Pijerudolem ći madge,

Porangiem i wiczórami.

Zbuściłęm śem jej na dwasz

Bug jusz nije czówa nad nami."

which translates to "Autumn's pacificating, Both day and cold nights. Leaves falling through my fingers, Almost like God's time."

There are a lot of interpretations, the most famous one is that autumn always felt like home to him, and he missed his childhood days.

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