title: Regional Variants Of The Russian Literary Language: Situation In Sevastopol
abstract: The article is devoted to the issue of a certain variant of the Russian language functioning in Sevastopol and Crimea. It provides findings of the study, which took several years, and involved examination of the speech of Sevastopol residents. On the basis of comparing the local speech with some other southern Russian vernacular the main features of the speech of Sevastopol residents are demonstrated. The following dominating characteristics are pointed out: absence of convergence of sounds [i] 
journal: The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences