Northern Russian dialects

Territory

• The territory of the primary formation is fully or partially modern regions : Vologda, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Novgorod, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Arkhangelsk.
• The territory of the second formation consist of most 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
• Vologda-Kirov group
• Vladimir-Volga group

  Phonology

• Dialects of this group do not exhibit typical vowel reduction in unstressed syllables. Unstressed is pronounced clearly.
• Some dialects have high or diphthongal in the place of and in stressed closed syllables instead of Standard Russian and.
• In the Novgorod sub-group only one voiceless affricate exists. Merging of Standard Russian and into one consonant whether or .
• In the Vologda region, final hard is replaced by a semivowel.
• ,, are like in Standard Russian. Nevertheless, in some sub-dialects, can also be replaced with semivowel like in Southern Russian.

  Morphology

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

  Vocabulary