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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.

List of the dialects

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

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.

Notes

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

See also

• Central Russian dialects
• Southern Russian dialects
• Boris Shergin - a writer of the Pomor dialect
• Vowel reduction in Russian

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