Question by Lastname, Michael Lastname™: are there any regional accents in the russian language?
Like here in the USA, someone from new york will have a different accent from someone from Alabama and people from the U and australia can sound like their speaking a different language because theiraccents are so different.etc. is there something similar to this in the Rosiyanin language? will someone in Moscow have a different accent than someone from say, Novosibirsk? or how about someone from Kazakhstan, will they have a an accent that distinguishes them from someone from peterburg?
@kate, I know kazakhstan is not russia, but they do speak Russian.
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Answer by K2010
Of course there is
Kazakhstan is not Russia, it is an independant country
Since you are part Russian (as you claim), you should have no problem check this link
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%8B_%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0
@Michael, 20 years after, but Russian is spoken and understood in all former 15 Soviet Republics
Answer by Beverley M
Yes… There are regional accents. My mother spoke Russian and often commented on that. There are also subtle differences in word usage.
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Nikolay says
Most significant accents in Russian I`ve ever see: People from Perm Region( as well all West ural) and Ukrainian people.
Yes most of Ukrainians speak Russian well but they get a pretty good accent, I know it and I might recognize it clearly because my mather used to live there.
And those asian acsent, many asian people spoke Russian bad.
I am personally do not like those asian accent and people from Caucasus, they also speak Russian bad. Try to google Perm (Ural accent), Ukrainian accent, or those awfull Asian accent.
Уральский акцент, Украинский акцент, Азиатский акцент, Кавказский акцент.
Or google Равшан и Джамшут, – they speak with funny pseudo asian accent
Антон says
Yes there are. In the European part of Russia since XV century there were two large groups of dialects – Northern and southern dialect, characterized by a number of clear differences (for example, to the north is characterized by the use of “o” in unstressed positions, explosive [g], and to the south – is characterized by the use of “a” in unstressed positions, fricative [γ]), as well as intermediate central Russian dialects (such as Moscow made an explosive [g] and the ending of the genitive case “-ы” in the north, but the use of “a” as in the south .) Central Russian dialects (primarily Moscow) formed the basis of the Russian literary language. In addition to this there are still a large number of small dialects.
Although now, all of these differences are erased. In my opinion the conversation urban man looks the same in the north and in the south. So, maybe it will be right to talk about urban and rural differences in emphasis