Moscow dialect
The Moscow dialect or Moscow accent (Russian: Московское произношение, romanized: Moskovskoye proiznosheniye, IPA: [mɐˈskofskəjə prəɪznɐˈʂenʲɪɪ]), sometimes Central Russian,[1] is the spoken Russian language variety used in Moscow. Influenced by both Northern and Southern Russian dialects,[2] the Moscow dialect is the basis of the Russian literary language.[3]
Overview
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica wrote:[4]
Literary Russian as spoken by educated people throughout the empire is the Moscow dialect... The Moscow dialect really covers a very small area, not even the whole of the government of Moscow, but political causes have made it the language of the governing classes and hence of literature. It is a border dialect, having the southern pronunciation of unaccented o as a, but the jo for accented o before a hard consonant it is akin to the North and it has also kept the northern pronunciation of g instead of the southern h. So too unaccented e sounds like i or ji'.
Examples
| Dialect | понятно I see |
что what |
ничего nothing |
Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow and Central Russia | [pɐˈnʲatnə] | [ʂto] | [nʲɪtɕɪˈvo] | unstressed /o/ becomes [ɐ] or [ə] ⟨ч⟩ is pronounced [ʂ] Intervocalic ⟨г⟩ is pronounced Russian pronunciation: [v] |
| The North | ponjatno | što | ničevo | |
| Old St. Petersburg | panjatna | čto | ničego | |
| The South | panjatna | što | ničevo | |
| Source: [1] | ||||
References
- ^ a b Rough Guide Phrasebook: Russian (Updated ed.). London: Penguin. 2012. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9781405390576.
- ^ Sokolʹskiĭ, A. A. (1966). A history of the Russian language. Impr. Taravilla. p. 106.
- ^ Винокур, Григорий Осипович (1971). The Russian language; a brief history. Translated by Forsyth, Mary A. Edited by James Forsyth. Cambridge University Press. p. 15. ISBN 9780521079440.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Russian Language". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 913–914.