Southern Russian dialects

Southern Russian is one of the main groups of Russian dialects.

Territory

The territory of the primary formation is entirely 11 modern regions : Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Voronezh; and some southern parts of 3 regions: Moscow, Pskov, and Tver
The territory of the second formation consists of most of the land of lower Don and Volga, the Northern Caucasus, as well as Southern Ural, Siberia, and Far East.

Unstressed undergoes different degrees of vowel reduction mainly to , less often to,,.
Unstressed,, following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to , being instead pronounced in such positions – this is called yakanye/яканье.
Fricative instead of the Standard and Northern. Soft is usually.
Semivowel in the place of the Standard and Northern and final.
where the Standard and Northern have.
Prosthetic before and stressed : во́кна, ву́лица, Standard Russian окна, улица "windows, street".
Prosthetic before and : етот, ентот, Standard Russian этот "this".
In Pskov and Ryazan sub-groups only one voiceless affricate exists. Merging of Standard Russian and into one consonant whether or.

Palatalized final in 3rd person forms of verbs : он ходить, они ходять "he goes, they go"
Occasional dropping of the 3rd person ending at all: он ходи, они ходя "he goes, they go"
Oblique case forms of personal pronouns мяне́, табе́, сабе́ instead of Standard Russian мне, тебе, себе "me, you, -self".

Some of these features such as akanye/yakanye, a debuccalized or lenited, a semivowel , and palatalized final in 3rd person forms of verbs are also present in modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian, indicating a linguistic continuum.