The territory of the second formation (e.g. where Russians settled after the 16th century) consist of most of the land to the South-East of Moscow, that is the middle and lower Volga, Ural as well as Siberia and Far East. It also includes Saint-Petersburg, whose dialect is fairly close to Standard Russian.
Features
Central Russian is a transitional stage between the North and the South, so some of its dialects closer to the North have northern features, and those closer to the South have the southern ones.[1]
Classification
There are two types of internal differentiation of Central Russian dialects, the first is based on the methods of linguistic geography (areal classification),[2] the second is based on typological patterns (structural-typological classification)[3]
The most well known and widespread are areal classification.[2]
The main groups in the Central Russian dialects:
Pskov group of dialects
Western group of dialects
Eastern group of dialects
Pskov group is transitional to the dialects of the Belarus.[4]
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