{"id":9466,"date":"2016-10-13T07:16:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T07:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=9466"},"modified":"2018-08-14T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T19:44:18","slug":"russian-regional-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/russian-regional-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Russian Sound Different in European Russia and the Far East?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very often I hear people say that, Russia being so large, there must be distinct regional accents. A person from Moscow surely<\/em> speaks differently than someone from Novosibirsk. However, in the case of Russia we find that the variation is not nearly as drastic as one would expect.<\/p>\n

As explained in the\u00a0Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/em><\/a>, “The degree of dialectal differentiation depends to a great extent on the length of time a certain population has remained in a certain place.” The article notes that there is much less accent variation in Russian as compared to Swiss German due to migrations of the Russian population and an unobstructed geography.<\/p>\n

I would like to share some examples of how people from different parts of Russia talk. We’ll also look at some of the expressions they use.<\/p>\n

\"Map

Here are the cities “sampled” on a map
Map from Google Maps<\/p><\/div>\n

The Far East<\/h2>\n

The rock musician Ilya Lagutenko (\u0418\u043b\u044c\u044f \u041b\u0430\u0433\u0443\u0442\u0435\u043d\u043a\u043e) was born in Moscow (\u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u0430) but moved to Vladivostok (\u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0301\u043a) as an infant and spent all of his childhood and college years there.<\/p>\n