Russian philology
similarly to that existing in Bulgarian and Macedonian.
In the Southern Russian dialects, instances of unstressed /e/ and /a/ following palatalized
consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to [] (as occurs in the Moscow
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