Northern Russian dialects

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Map of the Russian dialects of the primary formation (Northern Russian is dark green)

The northern Russian dialects make up one of the main groups of the Russian dialects.

Territory

Russian dialects and territorial varieties are divided in two conceptual chronological and geographic categories:

• 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): Vologda, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk.
• The territory of the second formation (e.g. where Russians settled after the 16th century) consist of most of the land to the North and North-East of Central Russia, that is Karelia, Murmansk, Vyatka, Perm, Komi, Udmurtia, and as well as Siberia and Far East.

List of sub-dialects

• Pomor dialects
• Olonets group
• Novgorod group
• Siberian dialects
• Vologda-Kirov group
• Vladimir-Volga group

Phonology

• Lack of vowel reduction:Template:Sfn unstressed does not merge with (okanye).Template:Sfn Unstressed , and after soft consonants also do not typically merge.Template:Sfn
• Some dialects have high or diphthongal (in the Novgorod subgroup even ) as a reflex of Template:Proto.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
• In the eastern part of the group the change of every Template:Proto to before hard (unpalatalized) consonants occurs (in Standard Russian only in stressed syllables). Template:Proto also changes to in these positions but only in stressed syllables.Template:Sfn
• Also in the eastern part of the dialect group there is in certain positions instead of Standard Russian .Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
• Tsokanye: the merger of Standard Russian and into one consonant whether , or (like in Pskov and Ryazan Southern Russian dialects).Template:Sfn
• In the Vologda region, final hard is replaced by a semivowel .
• , , are like in Standard Russian (differs from Southern Russian).Template:Sfn Nevertheless, in some sub-dialects , can also be replaced with semivowel like in Southern Russian.
• In some dialects traces of unreduced Template:Proto, which normally reduced to in all of East Slavic: "the sound between Lake Pskov and Lake Chud" (instead of expected ), from earlier "reread (past tense)" (instead of standard ). In these examples, the groups *tl, dl dissimilated to , instead of reducing to . Some (Shakhmatov, Durnovo) see this as an indication of possible West Slavic admixture in those areas, while others (Trubetzkoy, Lehr-Spławiński) treat it as an archaism from Proto-Slavic times.Template:Sfn

Morphology

• A suffixed definite article -to, -ta, -te similarly existing in Bulgarian.Template:Sfn
• 3rd person verbal ending with non-palatalized -t as in Standard Russian.Template:Sfn

Vocabulary

Northern dialects are characterized by a number of words like, ('log hut'), , ('winter crop'), ('to bark'), , ('to plough'), ('rye'), ('gathering'), ('very much'), ('beautiful') and others. They also have about 200 words of Uralic origin.

External links

• Michael Daniel, Nina Dobrushina, Ruprecht von Waldenfels. The language of the Ustja river basin. A corpus of North Russian dialectal speech. 2013–2018. Bern, Moscow.

See also

• Central Russian dialects
• Southern Russian dialects
• Old Novgorod dialect
• Boris Shergin – a writer of the Pomor dialect
• Vowel reduction in Russian

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