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Slobozhan Dialect
Slobozhan or Sloboda Ukrainian dialect () is a dialect of Ukrainian language spoken in the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. It formed as a result of interaction between speakers of Middle Dnieprian, Eastern Polesian and Podolian dialects of Ukrainian, as well Southern Russian dialects Southern Russian is one of the main groups of Russian dialects. Territory * The territory of the ''primary formation'' (i.e. that consists of "Old" Russia of the 16th century before Eastern conquests by Ivan IV) is entirely 11 modern regions ..., during the settlement of the area in the 16-17th centuries. Slobozhan dialect is classified among Southeastern Ukrainian dialects. Vocabulary References {{Ukrainian language Ukrainian dialects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Of Ukrainian Dialects En
A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space. A map may be annotated with text and graphics. Like any graphic, a map may be fixed to paper or other durable media, or may be displayed on a transitory medium such as a computer screen. Some maps change interactively. Although maps are commonly used to depict geography, geographic elements, they may represent any space, real or fictional. The subject being mapped may be two-dimensional such as Earth's surface, three-dimensional such as Earth's interior, or from an abstract space of any dimension. Maps of geographic territory have a very long tradition and have existed from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'of the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring to a flat representation of Earth's surface. History Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian language, Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian language, Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic", ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1977. ''Classification and Index of the World's Languages'' (Elsevier). p. 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloboda Ukraine
Sloboda Ukraine, also known locally as ''Slobozhanshchyna'' or ''Slobozhanshchina'', is a historical region in northeastern Ukraine and southwestern Russia. It developed from Belgorod Razriad and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries on the southwestern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia. In 1765, it was converted into the Kharkov Governorate, Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. Etymology Its name derives from the term ''sloboda (settlement), sloboda'' for a colonial settlement free of tax obligations, and the word ''Name of Ukraine, Ukraine'' was used to refer to the area inhabited by Ukrainian Cossacks and settlers. The word ''Ukraine'' is often considered to originally refer to a 'borderland', a view supported by Russian, Ukrainian, and Western historians such as Orest Subtelny, Paul Magocsi, Omeljan Pritsak, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ivan Ohiyenko, Petro Tolochko,Толочко П. П. «От Руси к Украине» («Від Русі до України») 1997 and others. It i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Dnieprian Dialect
Middle Dnieprian dialect () is a dialect of Ukrainian language Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of t ... spoken in the historical region of Dnieper Ukraine. Linguistically it belongs to the Southeastern Ukrainian dialects, Southeastern group of Ukrainian dialects. Middle Dnieprian is spoken in southern parts of Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv region, southwestern parts of Sumy Oblast, Sumy region, in most of the territory of Cherkasy Oblast, Cherkasy and Poltava Oblast, Poltava regions, as well as in northern parts of Kirovohrad Oblast, Kirovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk regions. The territory where the dialect is widespread borders Central Polesian dialect, Central and Eastern Polesian dialect, Eastern Northern Ukrainian dialects, Polesian dialects in the north, Slobozh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Polesian Dialect
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Podolian Dialect
Podolian or Podillian dialect () is a dialect of Ukrainian language spoken in the historical region of Podolia (, ''Podillia'') in central-western areas of Ukraine. It is usually classified as part of Southwestern Ukrainian dialects and is the easternmost dialect in the group. History Podolian dialect formed in the historical lands of the Kievan Rus, Rus' Principality of Terebovlia and the latter Podolian Voivodeship, Podolian and Bratslav Voivodeships of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Main features of the dialect were first described by Ivan Vahylevych in 1845. Area The territory where Podolian dialect is spoken covers the southern parts of Khmelnytskyi oblast, Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia oblast, Vinnytsia regions, western parts of Cherkasy oblast, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad oblast, Kirovohrad and Mykolaiv oblast, Mykolaiv regions, as well as northern parts of Odesa oblast, Odesa region. This area borders Southwestern Ukrainian dialects (Dniestrian Ukrainian dialect, Dniestrian, Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Russian Dialects
Southern Russian is one of the main groups of Russian dialects. Territory * The territory of the ''primary formation'' (i.e. that consists of "Old" Russia of the 16th century before Eastern conquests by Ivan IV) is entirely 11 modern regions (''oblasts''): 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'' (i.e. where Russians settled after the 16th century) consists of most of the land of lower Don and Volga, the Northern Caucasus, as well as Southern Ural, Siberia, and Far East. Phonology * Unstressed undergoes different degrees of vowel reduction mainly to (strong akanye), less often to , , . * Unstressed , , following palatalized consonants and preceding a stressed syllable are not reduced to (like in the Moscow dialect), being instead pronounced in such positions (e.g. несли is pronounced , not ) – t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southeastern Ukrainian Dialects
The Southeastern dialects (), sometimes referred to as the Eastern or Central-Eastern dialects, are one of the three dialect groups of the Ukrainian language, alongside the Southwestern and Northern dialect groups. The borders of the Southeastern dialects reach from the south of Kyiv and Sumy oblasts to the Black Sea and from the northern or western parts of Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, and Odesa oblasts to Ukraine's eastern border. They are also spoken in Crimea as well as in Belgorod, Kursk, Rostov, and Voronezh oblasts of Russia. The Southeastern dialects form the literary standard of Ukrainian. Phonetically, its closest relatives are the Podolian and southern Volhynian dialects, while its simplified syntax, morphology, and vocabulary are closer in nature to the Northern dialects. In contrast to other dialects of Ukrainian, which historically used the sound in foreign loanwords prior to the Ukrainian orthography of 1933, the Southeastern dialects have consistently used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sparrowhawk
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Thaw (weather)
Thaw is the period when the snow and ice melt, at the end of the winter, in cold climates. January thaw January thaw is a term applied to a thaw or rise in temperature in mid-winter found in mid-latitude North America. Sinusoidal estimates of expected temperatures, for northern locales, usually place the lowest temperatures around January 23 and the highest around July 24, and provide fairly accurate estimates of temperature expectations. Actual average temperatures in North America usually significantly differ twice over the course of the year * Mid-autumn temperatures tend to be warmer than predicted by the sinusoidal model, creating the impression of extended summer warmth known as Indian summer. * For five days around January 25, temperatures are usually significantly warmer than predicted by the sinusoidal estimate, and also warmer than neighboring temperatures on both sides. During this "thaw" period, usually lasting for about a week, temperatures are generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadoof
A shadoof or shaduf, well pole, well sweep, sweep,Knight, Edward Henry. ''Knight's American mechanical dictionary''. Vol. 3. New York, Hurd and Houghton: Riverside Press, 1877. 2,468. Print. swape, or simply a lift is a tool that is used to lift water from a well or another water source onto land or into another waterway or basin. It is highly efficient, and has been known since 3000 BCE. The mechanism of a shadoof comprises a long counterbalanced pole on a pivot, with a bucket attached to the end of it. It is generally used in a crop irrigation system using basins, dikes, ditches, walls, canals, and similar waterways. History One theory states that the shadoof was invented in prehistoric times in Mesopotamia as early as the time of Sargon of Akkad (around 24th and 23rd centuries BCE). The earliest evidence of this technology is a cylindrical seal with a depiction of a shadoof dating back to about 2200 BCE. Then, it is believed that the Minoans adopted this technology; evid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
