Of Northern Russian origin, it has nonetheless assumed many Southern 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] 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 is transitional to the dialects of the Belarus.
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