Dialectal Features in the Text of a 19th‑Century Cossack Epitaph (Based on Graveyard Inscriptions from the Stanitsa Yekaterinogradskaya)
The paper examines dialectal features manifested in Cossack commemorative inscriptions, based on 19th century epitaphs and comparative records of contemporary dialectal speech. The study focuses on phonetic characteristics of the local vernacular (hardness of the sonorant /r/, bilabial /ў/, fricative /ɣ/, simplificatio...