Southern Russian is one of the main groups of Russian dialects.
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RegionPrimary-formation territory across eleven oblasts including Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Ryazan, Tambov, Tula and Voronezh, plus southern parts of Moscow, Pskov and Tver 1 Speaker CommunityCommunities of the lower Don and Volga, the Northern Caucasus, southern Ural, Siberia and the Far East, settled after the 16th century 1 Distinguishing FeaturesMarked by strong akanye, the reduction of unstressed o mainly to a 1 Classification
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The Southern Russian dialect group is one of the two principal geographic dialect divisions of Russian.
Source Wikipedia: Russian Dialects
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1. Wikipedia: Southern Russian Dialect
Wikimedia FoundationSouthern Russian dialects Wikipedia article, Territory section, primary-formation sentence
The territory of the primary formation (i.e. that consists of "Old" Russia of the 16th century before Eastern conquests by Ivan IV) is entirely 11 modern regions (oblasts): Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Voronezh; and some southern parts of 3 regions: Moscow, Pskov, and Tver
Southern Russian dialects Wikipedia article, Territory section, second-formation sentence
The territory of the second formation (i.e. where Russians settled after the 16th century) consists of most of the land of lower Don and Volga, the Northern Caucasus, as well as Southern Ural, Siberia, and Far East.
Southern Russian dialects Wikipedia article, Phonology section, first entry
Unstressed /o/ undergoes different degrees of vowel reduction mainly to [a] (strong akanye), less often to [ɐ], [ə], [ɨ].
Variety kind, Southern Russian dialect entity page
Southern Russian is one of the main groups of Russian dialects.
View the Source Wikipedia: Russian Dialects
Wikimedia FoundationDescends From: Russian, Dialect-division section (In Russia)Quote, Descends From: Russian, Dialect-division section (In Russia)
Southern, in the western and southern parts of European Russia; this has various types of vowel reduction and fricative /gamma/; this group makes up a dialect continuum with Belarusian.
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