Moscovian dialect

The Moscow dialect or Moscow accent (Russian: Московское произношение, tr. Moskovskoye proiznoshenye, 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 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

^[1]

Dialect	понятно I see	что what	ничего nothing	Explanation
Moscow and Central Russia	[pɐˈnʲatnə] ( listen)	[ʂto] ( listen)	[nʲɪtɕɪˈvo] ( listen)	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

References

1 2 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 (1911). The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information, Volume 23. London: Encyclopædia Britannica. pp. 913–914.

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[Rough_Guide_Phrasebook-1] 1 2 Rough Guide Phrasebook: Russian (Updated ed.). London: Penguin. 2012. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9781405390576.

[2] Sokolʹskiĭ, A. A. (1966). A history of the Russian language. Impr. Taravilla. p. 106.

[3] 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.

[4] Chisholm, Hugh (1911). The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information, Volume 23. London: Encyclopædia Britannica. pp. 913–914.