Actually it is from the area around Domashyn, in the deep mountains. There is much of the proto-Slavic language in her dialect. The use of Азь interspersed with я for 1st person singular, Мляко for milk, and several other minor points. This area still retains some who still use the OLD alphabet, between Old Slavonic and Old Orthographic Cyrillic.
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This woman has obviously been exposed at one time to Polish speakers, as she utilizes a glottal G and a soft palate. A few modern Western Ukrainian dialects were moded after some of the palatizations she uses, but word order, the use of infinitives, archaic nouns, and the fact that it is almost sung rather than spoken, rules out more than a cursory relationship to modern Eastern Slavic languages. What you are actually hearing, my friends, is an almost a verbatim rendering of Old Bulgarian, as spoken by the White Croats, the forefathers of all the Eastern and southern Slavs.
Alexandr
