User:Semyon/Novosevenskian Russian

Novosevenskian Russian, also known as новосевенский диалект русской мовы, is the dialect of Russian spoken by inhabitants of Novosevensk. It is spoken by roughly 500 people.

History
The majority of modern-day Novosevenskians are descended from refugees of the First World War. After the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which large parts in the west of the Soviet Union were handed to the Germans, some inhabitants attempted to flee the country, and a few went to Novosevensk, where a flourishing Russian settlement existed.

They consisted of a mixture of ethnicities - Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Tatars, Finns, and of course, ethnic Russians. Each of these would go on to have some influence on the Novosevenskian dialect, but it was upon Russian and Ukrainian that the majority of the vocabulary and grammar would be based. The dialect remains mutually intelligible with both.

Novosevenskians also came into regular contact with English-speaking Lovians, and therefore English had a fairly large influence on the language, particularly after 1950, when American-Lovians began to immigrate directly to the village.

Since the 1980s, there has been an attempt to modernise the dialect and bring it back to the standard spoken in Russia. To an extent these changes have been resisted by traditionalists, leading to conflict.