One of the informant sources of historical investigation of Podilya dialects is folklore and ethnographic records from Podilya as well as literary works by S. Rudansky, A. Svydnytsky, M. Kotsyubynsky and athers. Oifferent language structural levels of Podilya dialects: phonetic, lexical, word building, syntactic - were and are the object of investigation for many Ukrainian linguists. The article describes the main phonetic peculiarities of Podilya dialects that can be found in the novel "Lyuboratski" by A. Svydnytsky.

Key words: Podilya dialect, phonetic peculiarities.