Slobozhan or Sloboda Ukrainian 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

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. It formed as a result of interaction between speakers of Middle Dnieprian, Eastern Polesian and

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s 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

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