Southern Russian dialects

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Southern Russian dialects are the dialects of a group of Russian dialects. Such dialects are widespread around Tula, Ryazan, Oryol, Tambov and the greater parts of Kaluga, Voronezh, and Kursk Oblasts as well as partially in a southern part of the Penza and western part Saratov Don Voisko Oblasts.^[1]

Common differences from Standard Russian include a lenited pronunciation of /g/ as [ɣ] (this has become [ɦ] in nearby Ukrainian dialects).^[2]

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[edit] See also

• Central Russian dialects
• Northern Russian dialects

[edit] Bibliography

• Shevelov, George Y. (1977), "On the Chronology of h and the New g in Ukrainian", written at Cambridge, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. vol 1, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 137–52