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The article discusses an archaic phonetic process that consists in the indifferentiation of the consonants [ʦ̑] and [t͡ʃ], pronounced as [ʦ̑] or [ʦ̑j], e.g., [tʃaj] can be pronounced as [ʦ̑aj] or [ʦ̑jaj] ‘tea’.  Cokanˈe occurs in Russian (the northern dialect cluster, the Pskov cluster of central Russian subdialects, and the eastern area of central Russian subdialects) and northeastern Belarusian subdialects. This phenomenon is often accompanied by a process that consists in the pronunciation of [ʦ̑] as [t͡ʃ] called  čokanˈe. A process that is similar to  cokanˈe also takes pla…

The article examines the Belarusian language and its various aspects, including basic language information, language name, history of the Belarusian literary language, and its dialect differentiation. The article presents the structure of the Belarusian language (phonetics, morphology, and syntax), its vocabulary, its centuries-long language contacts, its stylistic differentiation, and its sociolinguistic situation.The Belarusian language constitutes one of the three East Slavic languages. Since 1995, Belarusian remains in force, besides Russia…

The article discusses the phonetic process that consists in the affrication of the soft consonants [dj] > [ʣ̑ʲ] and [tj] > [ʦ̑ʲ], typical for the Belarusian language and its dialects (except for the Polesian subdialects in southwestern Belarus), the Polish literary language and most of its subdialects, and some Russian subdialects. The article presents the phonetic phenomenon, the history of the emergence of affrication during the period of Old Belarusian language as well as later periods, different theories…

The article describes the phonetic process known as akanʹe, which consists in the lack of differentiation between the unstressed [a], [ɛ], and [ɔ] (i.e., pronouncing them as [a]), e.g., Br balota ( balˈ ɔta, etymologically bolˈ oto) ‘swamp’, malako ( malakˈ ɔ, etymologically molokˈ o) ‘milk’, haktar ( γaktˈ ar, etymologically gektˈ ar) ‘hectare’. This feature is characteristic of the Belarusian literary language (reflected in both pronunciation and orthography) and some of its dialects, the Russian literary language (reflected in pronunciatio…