DIALECTS OF OLD BELIEVERS – SEMEISKIE IN AMUR REGION: ON QUESTION OF LEXICAL STRUCTURE HETEROGENEITY
The article considers some features of the vocabulary structure of Old Believers’ (Semeiskie) dialects in Amur region, conditioned by a number of factors of both linguistic and extralinguistic nature, the main of which is the closeness degree of interacting dialect systems. There are several layers of vocabulary, different in origin: common Slavic, common Siberian, borrowed and local, and typical mainly to Semeiskie dialects. The author pays special attention to the dialectal differences in vocabulary in Old Believers’ different dialects within the different territories of Amur Region.