September 10, 2025LanguagesOpen Access

Russian–Belarusian Border Dialects and Their “Language Roof”: Dedialectization and Trajectories of Changes

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Observational analysis of linguistic changes in Russian-speaking dialects, highlighting dedialectization and language prestige.

Dedialectization indicates a shift in dialect features towards standard Russian, reducing linguistic variation.
The linguistic self-identification among dialect speakers has shifted, with perceptions of decreased prestige compared to standard Russian.
Standard Russian linguistic features increasingly replace those characteristic of the Belarusian language over generations.
The study examines the hierarchy of borrowings to understand which dialect features change first and which remain stable.

Anastasiia Ryko (2025) studied this question.

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