Central Russian dialects
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The Central or Middle Russian dialects (
Southern Russian
features.
The official dialect (Standard Russian) originates from a dialect from this group.
Territory
- The territory of the primary formation (e.g. that consist of "Old" Russia of the 16th century before Eastern conquests by .
- The territory of the second formation (e.g. where Russians settled after the 16th century) consist of most of the land to the South-East of Moscow, that is the middle and lower Saint-Petersburg, whose dialect is fairly close to Standard Russian.
Features
Central Russian is a transitional stage between the North and the South, so some of its dialects closer to the North have northern features, and those closer to the South have the southern ones.[1]
Classification
There are two types of internal differentiation of Central Russian dialects, the first is based on the methods of linguistic geography (areal classification),[2] the second is based on typological patterns (structural-typological classification)[3]
The most well known and widespread are areal classification.[2]
The main groups in the Central Russian dialects:
- Pskov group of dialects
- Western group of dialects
- Eastern group of dialects
Pskov group is transitional to the dialects of the Belarus.[4]
See also
Notes
- ^ Sussex & Cubberley 2006, pp. 521–526.
- ^ OCLC 56977847.
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- ^ "Русские (5)". www.booksite.ru. Retrieved 2019-06-22.
References
- Crosswhite, Katherine Margaret (2000), "Vowel Reduction in Russian: A Unified Account of Standard, Dialectal, and 'Dissimilative' Patterns" (PDF), University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, 1 (1): 107–172, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-06
- ISBN 978-0-521-22315-7.
External links
- R. Ronko, E. Volf, M. Grebenkina, M. Ershova, A. Okhapkina, A. Hadasevich, V. Morozova. Opochka Dialect Corpus. 2019 Moscow: Linguistic Convergence Laboratory, NRU HSE; Vinogradov Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.