Balachka
Sign in to saveBalachka (; ) is the traditional language of the Kuban Cossacks. It is spoken in the Kuban region of southern Russia, particularly in present-day Krasnodar Krai. It developed among the Black Sea Cossacks who were resettled to the region in the late 18th century from territories of the former Zaporizhian Sich.
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Balachka (; ) is the traditional language of the Kuban Cossacks. It is spoken in the Kuban region of southern Russia, particularly in present-day Krasnodar Krai. It developed among the Black Sea Cossacks who were resettled to the region in the late 18th century from territories of the former Zaporizhian Sich.
Balachka is an East Slavic language spoken in southern Russia which has significant Ukrainian influence. Its phonetics, vocabulary and certain grammatical features reflect a mixture of southern Russian dialectal forms and elements associated with central and eastern Ukrainian speech.
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