Northern Russian dialects
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Northern Russian dialects are a group of dialects of the Russian language.
Dialects of this group do not exhibit typical vowel reduction in unstressed syllables.[1] Northern Russian dialects also are spoken in Finland. Many Russian dialects are within this group.
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[edit] List of the dialects
[edit] Vocabulary
Northern dialects are characterized by a number of words like, изба ('log hut'), квашня, озимь ('winter crop'), лаять ('to bark'), ухват, орать ('to plough'), жито ('rye'), беседки ('gathering'), шибко ('very much'), баской ('beautiful') and others.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Crosswhite (2000:109)
[edit] References
- Crosswhite, Katherine Margaret (2000), "Vowel Reduction in Russian: A Unified Accountof Standard, Dialectal, and 'Dissimilative' Patterns", University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences 1 (1): 107-172
[edit] See also
- Central Russian dialects
- Southern Russian dialects
- Boris Shergin - a writer of the Pomor dialect
- Vowel reduction in Russian
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