Russian philology
dialect), being instead pronounced [a] in such positions (e.g. is pronounced [nasli],
not [nsli]) this is called yakanye (). Consonants include a fricative //, a
semivowel /wu/ and /xxvxw/, whereas the Standard and Northern dialects have the
consonants //, /v/, and final /l/ and /f/, respectively. The morphology features a palatalized
final /t/ in 3rd person forms of verbs (this is unpalatalized in the Standard and Northern
dialects). Some of these features such as akanye and yakanye, a debuccalized or lenited //, a
semivowel /wu/ and palatalized final /t/ in 3rd person forms of verbs are also present in
modern Belarusian and some dialects of Ukrainian (Eastern Polesian), indicating a linguistic
continuum.
The city of Veliky Novgorod has historically displayed a feature called chokanye or tsokanye
( or ), in which /t/ and /ts/ were switched or merged. So, ('heron') has
been recorded as . Also, the second palatalization of velars did not occur there, so the
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