Siberian dialects

For other uses, see Siberian languages.

Not to be confused with Paleosiberian languages.

Siberian dialects are a group of Northern Russian dialects under the serious lexical influence of the Southern Russian dialects and foreign inclusions (primarily Turkic^[1] and sometimes Yukaghir and Even).^[2][3] It is spoken by Siberian old-timers: Siberiaks, Chaldons, Kerzhaks, Cossacks, Old Believers, 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 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]}

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 айдат).

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 шыбко ('very much'), лаять ('to bark'), баской ('beautiful'), ошшо ('yet'), баять ('to speak'), кляшшой ('big'), айдать ('to go'), хоить ('to walk'), ись ('to eat'), толмачить ('to translate'), жахать ('to jump'), вольгота ('freedom'), таперича ('now'), робить ('to work'), бабонька ('grandma'). There are also numerous loanwords of Uralic and Turkic origin.