Editing Lechitic languages (section)

==Features==
Common West Slavic features that are also present in Lechitic:<ref>{{cite book|title=Dialekty polskie|author= Karol Dejna|year=1973|pages=59–60}}</ref>
# χ́ > š́ in front of ě<sub>2</sub>, i<sub>2</sub>
# sk, zɡ > š́č́, ž́ǯ́ in front of ě<sub>2</sub>, i<sub>2</sub>
# χ́ > š́ after i, ь, ę, ŕ̥
# epenthetic l only in initial position after soft labials
# -ě<sub>3</sub> in the nominative/accusative plural and genitive singular (duš́ě<sub>3</sub>) and accusatieve plural of kon’ě<sub>3</sub> (instead of -ę)
# replacement of the instrumental singular ending -omъ with -ъmъ
# Creation of the nominative masculine/neuter singular ending/active preterite participle ending -a (reka, nesa instead of reky, nesy
# õrt-, õlt- > rot-, lot- (rola, radło)
# (ti̯, di̯ >) t́̄, d́̄; kt́ > ć, ʒ́
# Extension of the pronoun tъ > tъnъ
# Replacement of č́ьto with co via the genitive singular č́ьso
# Use of the compound adjectival genitive and dative masculine/neuter singular endings -ego and -emu through analogy with jego, jemu
# Temporal adverbs ending in -dy instead of -da
# Creation of the conjunction of intent aby
# Tendency for establishing a non-mobile accent
# Tendency to raise long vowels

There was no Proto-Lechitic language, but rather Lechitic languages are a group of dialects with many shared features.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dialekty polskie|author= Karol Dejna|year=1973|pages=64–65}}</ref> The central and eastern territories came under the control of the Piasts, which created a political, cultural (especially religious) unit, which caused the Pomeranians and Polabians to have weaker contact, as the Pomeranians were absorbed into the state by Mieszko I and began integrating with the Eastern Lechites.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dialekty polskie|author= Karol Dejna|year=1973|pages=65}}</ref>

Common Lechitic features include:<ref>{{cite book|title=Dialekty polskie|author= Karol Dejna|year=1973|pages=65–81}}</ref>
# Labiovelarization of *telt (but compare Polabian ''mlåkə'' and Kashubian/Slovincian ''młȯko''; also ''czółn'')
# Replacement of *tort, tolt, tert, telt
## In accented and preaccented syllables (i.e. under rising intonation): tórᵒt > tᵒrot > trot
## In circumflex and post-accented syllables (i.e. under falling intonation) *tolt > tòlᵒt or ‘tolòt > talt
# Softening of consonants before front vowels
# Velarization of ŕ̥
# Development of sonants (voiced consonants) into complex groups of a vowel and a consonant r, l
## west and central ĺ̥ l̥ > oł > åu̯; Pĺ̥T (before a non-back hard consonant_ in the northeast > ‘el, in the south > ‘il; after TČKP and Pĺ̥T in the northeast ĺ̥ l̥ > oł
## ŕ̥T, r̥ > ar (and then in Polabian > or); ŕ̥T́ > ir (Polabian) > er >ar, or > (Polish) ir, iř > er, eř (which hardens before labials and ch)
# Hardening of consonants before r̥ < ŕ̥T
# *ěT > ‘a (Lechitic ablaut)
# *ęT > ǫ
# eT >’o