Southern Russian dialects

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Map of the Russian dialects of the primary formation (Southern Russian is red) Russian dialects.png
Map of the Russian dialects of the primary formation (Southern Russian is red)

Southern Russian is one of the main groups of Russian dialects.

Contents

Territory

Phonology

Morphology

Relation to other languages

Some of these features such as akanye/yakanye, a debuccalized or lenited /ɡ/, a semivowel /w~u̯/, and palatalized final /tʲ/ in 3rd person forms of verbs are also present in modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian (Eastern Polesian), indicating a linguistic continuum.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Sussex & Cubberley 2006, pp. 521–526.
  2. "The Language of the Russian Village" (in Russian). Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  3. "The Language of the Russian Village" (in Russian). Retrieved 2011-11-10.

Bibliography