LL-L "Lexicon" 2002.11.11 (03) [E]

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From: Roman Laryushkin <puka_2000 at mail.ru>
Subject: Language varieties

Hi all!

Having looked through the 'Dictionary of Foreign Words (in Russian)' and
found a lot  of words, marked as Dutch ones, I noted some regularities:

1. letter combinations "sp, st" in Russian borrowings sound like in
German [shp, sht]
2. letter combination "zw" - [shw] - I noted that initial "zw" in Dutch
words corresponds to initial "schw" in German.
3. The letter "o" is often pronounced as [u]
4. The ending -ouw - [ov]
5. The diphtong "ou" - besides [au] - [ou]
6. The diphtong "eu" - [ьj]
7. And combination "ui" in borrowings is presented in several ways -
 [ь(j)], [oi], [o], [i]

Are they the features of some dialect or some era? Don't forget, that
all they were borrowed in 16-19 centuries.

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