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    Steppe dialect (Ukrainian: Степовий говір) belongs to the Southeastern group of Ukrainian dialects. Having formed in the 17-19th centuries, it is the youngest...
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    sub-dialect (Tarsky District, Bolsherechensky District, Kolosovsky District of Omsk Oblast) Baraba dialect (spoken throughout the Baraba steppe) Tom...
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    Central Russian) dialect substratum under some influence of the Russian chancery language. The Moscow dialect had a northern dialectal base, but after...
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    comprises three dialects: Middle Dnieprian, spoken in Dnieper Ukraine; Slobozhan, spoken in Sloboda Ukraine; and the Steppe dialect, spoken on the Wild...
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    Christian Aleppine Rural dialects similar to Muslim Aleppine Mountain dialects Rural dialects Bēbi (əlBāb) Mixed dialects These dialects are transitional between...
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    where the dialect is widespread borders Central and Eastern Polesian dialects in the north, Slobozhan dialect in the east, Steppe dialect in the south...
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  • both grammar sets can be applied. A (6) Steppe dialect is spoken in southern and southeastern Ukraine. This dialect was originally the main language of the...
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    Look up steppe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In physical geography, a steppe (/stɛp/) is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed...
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    migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained until the...
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    origins identifies the Pontic–Caspian steppe as the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) urheimat, and a variety of late PIE dialects are assumed to have been spoken across...
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  • Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World is a 2007 book by the anthropologist David W. Anthony...
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    the Eurasian steppes to Central Europe, probably played a central role in the spread of the pre-Germanic and pre-Balto-Slavic dialects. The eastern part...
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    Ukrainian dialects (Dniestrian, Pokuttia-Bukovynian and Volhynian), as well as Southeastern Ukrainian dialects (Middle Dnieper and Steppe dialects). merger...
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    Kamasins were split into two groups: the Taiga and the Steppe Kamasins, each with their own distinct dialect. The Taiga Kamasins engaged in hunting, reindeer...
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    Sarmatians (category History of the western steppe)
    of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 5th century BCE to the 4th century CE. The earliest known...
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  • Europe, and the Eastern Steppe. In the 1st millennium AD, their area of settlement, which was mainly concentrated in the steppes and deserts of Eurasia...
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    (Southeastern Europe to western China) Subfamily Mustelinae Genus Mustela Steppe polecat, M. eversmannii (Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia) American...
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  • The Crimean Tatar language consists of three dialects. The standard language is written in the middle dialect (bağçasaray, orta yolaq), which is part of...
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    farther west during the first millennium. They are characterized as a dialect continuum. Turkic languages are spoken by some 200 million people. The...
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  • BC). Mainstream scholars place them in the Pontic–Caspian steppe across Eurasia (this steppe extends from northeastern Bulgaria and southeastern Romania...
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    confederation that existed in the Middle Ages inhabiting parts of the Eurasian Steppe. First mentioned in the eighth century as part of the Second Turkic Khaganate...
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    common Indo-European's original homeland (more precisely, the Pontic-Caspian Steppe to the north of the Black Sea and the Caucasus), according to the reconstructed...
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    were a group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who lived in the Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin from the 9th century BC to the 5th century AD. The Saka...
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    Pirdop dialect Teteven dialect Erkech dialect Subbalkan dialect Rup Strandzha dialect Thracian dialect Hvoyna dialect Smolyan dialect Pomak dialect Chepino...
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    In the Ukrainian language there are three major dialectal groups according to territory: the southwestern group (Ukrainian: південно-західне наріччя,...
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    branches and evidencing the hypothesis that the LPIE dialects were spoken in the Pontic-Caspian steppes 3500-2500 BCE. He states that a homeland for early...
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    Scythian-speakers were nomadic pastoralists of Central Asia and the Pontic–Caspian steppe. Fragments of their speech known from inscriptions and words quoted in ancient...
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  • to the south. The Scythians originated in the region of the Volga-Ural steppes of Central Asia, possibly around the 9th century BC, as a section of the...
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    Belarusian Podlachian (often seen as a dialect of Belarusian or Ukrainian) Russian Rusyn (seen as Ukrainian dialect by Ukrainian cultural officials) Ukrainian...
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  • Baraba, Paraba or Baraba Tatar is a dialect of Siberian Tatar spoken by Baraba Tatars in Siberia. While middle aged individuals and the young generation...
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