Zokanje

Zokanje (Russian Цоканье ) is the name for the coincidence of the voiceless postalveolar affricates / tʃ / and the voiceless alveolar affricates / ts / to / ts / , for example čaj ( tea ) becomes caj .

This phonetic peculiarity can be found in North Russian dialects such as the Altnowgorod dialect , Lower Sorbian ( čas , time becomes cas ), the Mazovian dialect in Poland and a dialect of Croatian . There is also such a phenomenon in East Yiddish .

Web links

• Кузнецова Е. В .: Лекция «А цаво цавокаем?" - о том, кто такие цекуны и как им живётся

Remarks

1. ↑ Called sabesdiker losn , cf. Max Weinreich , History of the Yiddish Language , University of Chicago Press, 1980 Digitized , p. 534