Siberian dialects

For other uses, see Siberian languages.

Not to be confused with Paleosiberian languages.

Siberian dialects (Russian: сибирские говоры) are a group of Northern Russian dialects under the lexical influence of the Southern Russian dialects and foreign inclusions (primarily Turkic^[1] and sometimes Uralic).^[2][3] It has been spoken by Siberian old settlers: Siberiaks, Chaldons, Cossacks, Pokhodchans (Kolymchans), Russian Ustians (Indigirshchiks), and Markovites (Anadyrshchiks).

Siberian dialect
Siberian Siberiak
Сибирской говор Sibirskoj govor
Native to	Russian Federation
Region	Siberia
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic East Slavic Russian Northern Russian Siberian dialect
Writing system	Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

From a phonetic and grammatical point of view, Siberian dialects genetically go back to Northern Russian dialects (such as Vologda and Veliky Ustyug dialects) and are characterized by okanye, clear pronunciation of vowels, plosive /g/, absence of /ɕː/ (replaced by long /ʂː/), dropping out vowels (which leads to changes in the adjective declension) and consonants, a variety of pluperfect forms,^[4][5] as well as frequent use of postpositive articles,^{[6][verification needed][7]}, whose forms depend on the word's gender, number and declension ('мужик-от', 'самосад-отто', 'баба-та', 'руку-ту', 'сусиди-те').

Phonology

• /g/ and /k/ alternation;
• /f/ inclusion (еслиф, ислиф);
• Long /ʂː/ and /ʐː/ (шшука, дожжык);
• Differentation between /t͡s/ and /t͡ʃ/;
• The /st/ and /sʲtʲ/ endings are simplified to /s/ and /sʲ/;
• Vowel contraction (красна девка играт).

Morphology

• Feminine genitive ends with -ы;
• Feminine dative and propositional ends with -е (в грязе);
• Masculine propositional has the same ending as instrumental (в баским доме);
• The чо interrogative pronoun;
• 3rd person verbal ending with non-palatalized -t as in Standard Russian;
• 1st and 2nd verbal conjugation endings are not differentiated in 3rd person plural. Both conjugations utilize –ут/–ют.

Vocabulary

Siberian dialects are characterized by a number of words like шибко ('very'), баской ('beautiful'), дородно ('good'), айда ('let's go'), исти ('to eat'), толмачить ('to translate'), вольготно ('freely'), таперича ('now'), робить ('to work'), мультифора ('page protector'), вехотка or рехотка ('bath sponge'), вершить ('to solve'), хорош ('enough'), швыркать ('to drink'), вошкаться ('to fuss'). There are also numerous loanwords of Uralic and Turkic origin. Most of the dialecticisms have died out, though most of the listed words are still present in modern speech in Siberia.