Akanye

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Akanye or akanje^[1] (Belarusian: аканне, Russian: а́канье, Russian pronunciation: [ˈakənʲjɪ]), literally "a-ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes /o/ or /e/ are realized as more or less close to [a]. It is a case of vowel reduction.

The most familiar example is probably Russian akanye (pronounced but not represented orthographically in the standard language). Akanye also occurs in:

Standard Belarusian (represented orthographically)
Northern (Polissian) Ukrainian dialects
Slovene dialects (e.g., Lower Carniolan dialects),^[2]
Some subgroups of the Kajkavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian^[3]
Bulgarian dialects (e.g., the Rhodope dialects, including the Smolyan dialect).^[4]
Polish dialects (Podlasie, Kresy)^[5]

^ Bethin, Christina Yurkiw. 1998. Slavic prosody: language change and phonological theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 152 ff.
^ Toporišič, Jože. 1992. Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 2.
^ Gostenčnik, Januša (2013). "Fonološki opis govora grada Gerovo" (PDF). p. 3.
^ Crosswhite, Katherine. 2001. Vowel reduction in optimality theory. London: Routledge, p. 53.
^ "DIALEKTOLOGIA POLSKA". www.dialektologia.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2024-05-21.

[1] Bethin, Christina Yurkiw. 1998. Slavic prosody: language change and phonological theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 152 ff.

[Toporisic-2] Toporišič, Jože. 1992. Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 2.

[Gostencnik-3] Gostenčnik, Januša (2013). "Fonološki opis govora grada Gerovo" (PDF). p. 3.

[4] Crosswhite, Katherine. 2001. Vowel reduction in optimality theory. London: Routledge, p. 53.

[5] "DIALEKTOLOGIA POLSKA". www.dialektologia.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2024-05-21.

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