akanye

Akanye ( ) or akanje ( ; ) is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes or are realized as more or less close to . It is a case of vowel reduction.

The most familiar example is probably Russian akanye (pronounced but not systematically represented orthographically in the standard language). Akanye also occurs in: Standard Belarusian (represented orthographically) Northern (Polissian and Slobozhan) Ukrainian dialects Slovene dialects (e.g., Lower Carniolan dialects), Some subgroups of the Kajkavian dialect of Croatian Bulgarian dialects (e.g., the Rhodope dialects, including the Smolyan dialect). Polish dialects (Podlasie, Kresy)