Central Russian dialects

The Central or Middle Russian dialects is one of the main groups of Russian dialects. Of Northern Russian origin, it has nonetheless assumed many Southern Russian features.
The official dialect originates from a dialect from this group.

Territory

The territory of the primary formation is fully or partially modern regions : Moscow, Tver, Vladimir, Ivanovo, Pskov, Novgorod, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, Ryazan and the enclave of Chukhloma.
The territory of the second formation consist of most of the land to the South-East of Moscow, that is the middle and lower Volga, Ural as well as Siberia and Far East. It also includes Saint-Petersburg, whose dialect is fairly close to Standard Russian.
Features

Central Russian is a transitional stage between the North and the South, so some of its dialects closer to the North have northern features, and those closer to the South have the southern ones.

Classification

There are two types of internal differentiation of Central Russian dialects, the first is based on the methods of linguistic geography, the second is based on typological patterns
The most well known and widespread are areal classification.
The main groups in the Central Russian dialects:

Pskov group of dialects
Western group of dialects
Eastern group of dialects

Pskov group is transitional to the dialects of the Belarus.

Central Russian dialects

Territory

Features

Classification