[lg policy] Linguist List Issue: Unique Russian Dialect Recorded in Alaska

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Message1: Unique Russian Dialect Recorded in Alaska
Date:30-May-2013
From:Brent Woo bwoo at linguistlist.org
LINGUIST List issue http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-2240.html 


Linguists from Moscow State University have recorded a Russian dialect spoken by a few elderly people in Alaska that has been isolated from the mainland for over a century. The community is located in Ninilchik, a small village close to Anchorage. Along with a lexicon that would be considered outdated in Moscow, the language also features a grammatical gender shift.

Read more: http://en.ria.ru/world/20130529/181410443/Unique-Russian-Dialect-Recorded-in-Alaska.html 


Subject Language(s): Russian (rus)


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