Southern Russian dialects
Southern Russian is one of the main groups of Russian dialects.Territory
- The territory of the primary formation is entirely 11 modern regions : Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Voronezh; and some southern parts of 3 regions: Moscow, Pskov, and Tver
- The territory of the second formation consists of most of the land of lower Don and Volga, the Northern Caucasus, as well as Southern Ural, Siberia, and Far East.
Phonology
- Unstressed undergoes different degrees of vowel reduction mainly to , less often to,,.
- Unstressed,, following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to , being instead pronounced in such positions – this is called yakanye/яканье.
- Fricative instead of the Standard and Northern. Soft is usually.
- Semivowel in the place of the Standard and Northern and final.
- where the Standard and Northern have.
- Prosthetic before and stressed : во́кна, ву́лица, Standard Russian окна, улица "windows, street".
- Prosthetic before and : етот, ентот, Standard Russian этот "this".
- In Pskov and Ryazan sub-groups only one voiceless affricate exists. Merging of Standard Russian and into one consonant whether or.
Morphology
- Palatalized final in 3rd person forms of verbs : он ходить, они ходять "he goes, they go"
- Occasional dropping of the 3rd person ending at all: он ходи, они ходя "he goes, they go"
- Oblique case forms of personal pronouns мяне́, табе́, сабе́ instead of Standard Russian мне, тебе, себе "me, you, -self".
Relation to other dialects
Some of these features such as akanye/yakanye, a debuccalized or lenited, a semivowel, and palatalized final in 3rd person forms of verbs are also present in modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian, indicating a linguistic continuum.
