The Moscow dialect or Moscow accent ( rus, Московское произношение, Moskovskoye proiznosheniye, mɐˈskofskəjə prəɪznɐˈʂenʲɪɪ), sometimes Central Russian,
is the spoken
Russian language
Russian (russian: русский язык, russkij jazyk, link=no, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language mainly spoken in Russia. It is the First language, native language of the Russians, and belongs to the Indo-European langua ...
variety used in
Moscow – one of the two major pronunciation norms of the Russian language alongside the
Saint Petersburg norm. Influenced by both Northern and Southern Russian dialects, the Moscow dialect is the basis of the Russian
literary language.
Overview
The 1911 edition of the ''
Encyclopædia Britannica'' wrote:
Examples
References
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Russian dialects
Culture in Moscow
City colloquials