Central Russian dialects
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The Central or Middle Russian dialects (Template:Langx) is one of the main groups of Russian dialects. Of Northern Russian origin, it has nonetheless assumed many 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 Ivan IV) is fully or partially modern regions (oblasts): Moscow, Tver, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Pskov, Novgorod, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl (in Rostov), Ryazan (in Kasimov) and the enclave of Chukhloma.
- 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 Volga, Ural as well as Siberia and Far East. It also includes 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.Template:Sfn
Classification
There are two types of internal differentiation of Central Russian dialects, the first is based on the methods of linguistic geography (areal classification),[1] the second is based on typological patterns (structural-typological classification)[2]
The most well known and widespread are areal classification.[1]
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.[3]
See also
Notes
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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.