Pomor dialects are a group of Northern Russian dialects

Northern Russian dialects

The northern Russian dialects make up one of the main groups of the Russian dialects.- Territory :* The territory of the primary formation The northern Russian dialects make up one of the main groups of the Russian dialects.- Territory :* The territory of the primary formation The northern Russian...

 widespread among the Pomors of the former Arkhangelsk Governorate

Arkhangelsk Governorate

Archangelsk Governorate was an administrative division of the Russian Empire, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Arkhangelsk...

 and northern parts of the Olonets

Olonets Governorate

The Olonets Governorate or Government of Olonets was a guberniya of north-western Imperial Russia, extending from Lake Ladoga almost to the White Sea, bounded W. by Finland, N. and E. by Arkhangelsk and Vologda, and S. by Novgorod and St. Petersburg...

 and Vologda

Vologda Oblast

Vologda Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is Vologda. The largest city is Cherepovets.Vologda Oblast is rich in historic monuments, such as the magnificent Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery, Ferapontov Convent , medieval towns of Velikiy Ustyug and Belozersk, baroque...

 Governorates

Guberniya

A guberniya was a major administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire usually translated as government, governorate, or province. Such administrative division was preserved for sometime upon the collapse of the empire in 1917. A guberniya was ruled by a governor , a word borrowed from Latin ,...

.

The dialects are heavily influenced by Novgorod patois

Patois

Patois is any language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. It can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects, and other forms of native or local speech, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant...

 and there are a significant number of archaism

Archaism

In language, an archaism is the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current. This can either be done deliberately or as part of a specific jargon or formula...

s and borrowings

Language contact

Language contact occurs when two or more languages or varieties interact. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics.Multilingualism has likely been common throughout much of human history, and today most people in the world are multilingual...

 from Uralic

Uralic languages

The Uralic languages constitute a language family of some three dozen languages spoken by approximately 25 million people. The healthiest Uralic languages in terms of the number of native speakers are Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Mari and Udmurt...

 and Scandinavian languages.

Study

The study of the Pomor dialects was undertaken by I. S. Merkuryev (1924-2001), a professor of philology

Philology

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 and author of several books including Живая речь кольских поморов ("The Living Speech of the Kola Peninsula

Kola Peninsula

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 Pomors").

Pomor dialects in literature

The Pomor dialects are widely used in the works of the writers and folklorists Boris Shergin

Boris Shergin

Boris Viktorovich Shergin was a Pomor-Soviet writer and folklorist. He was born on July 28, 1896 in Arkhangelsk and died on October 31, 1973 in Moscow.-Biography:...

 and Stepan Pisakhov

Stepan Pisakhov

Stepan Grigorievich Pisakhov - Russian artist, writer, ethnographer, and fairy tale author.-Biography:Stepan Pisakhov was born into a family of a merchant; at the same time his father was a craftsman – a jeweler and engraver. After finishing a municipal school in Arkhangelsk Stepan studied in...

. Influences from them can be seen in the poetry of Nikolai Klyuev

Nikolai Klyuev

Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev , was a notable Russian poet...

.

Pomor dialects in film

Pomor dialects are spoken in the animated films of Leonid Nosyrev, many which are adaptations of stories by Shergin and Pisakhov. One example is Laughter and Grief by the White Sea

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea

Laughter and Grief by the White Sea is a 1987 Soviet traditionally-animated feature film directed by Leonid Nosyrev made at the Soyuzmultfilm studio...

(1987).

External links

• Leonid Nosyrev filmography at animator.ru