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Old Novgorod dialect
Old Russian dialect
Old Novgorod dialect
The Old Novgorod dialect (Russian: древненовгородский диалект, romanized: drevnenovgorodskiy dialekt, lit. 'ancient Novgorodian dialect'), also known as Old Novgorodian, was the East Slavic variety used in the city of Veliky Novgorod and its surrounding area. It is mainly known from medieval birch bark writings dating from the 11th to 15th centuries. According to Andrey Zaliznyak, together with the Old Pskov dialect, it formed a cluster of closely related dialects which converge with the other East Slavic dialects only in the Proto-Slavic stage. The Novgorod-Pskov dialect is also referred to as (Early) North Russian and Northwest Old Russian. Zaliznyak distinguished it from "supra-dialectal Old Russian". The Old Novgorod dialect is characterized by its linguistic conservatism, resisting changes and retaining over centuries older forms that eventually became archaisms to other Slavic dialects. For example, the birch bark letters from the Novgorod-Pskov area attest that the second palatalization...
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