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.

Contents 1 List of the dialects 2 Vocabulary 3 Notes 4 References 5 See also

[edit] List of the dialects

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

[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

[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