Phonology of Siberian Ingrian Finnish
The article briefly describes phonology of Siberian Ingrian Finnish (SIF), a Finnish language variety spoken by several dozens residents of Ryzhkovo village in Western Siberia (Omsk region). The description mainly deals with problem of reduction on synchronic and diachronic level, as well as with the issue of consonant and vowel inventory. SIF consonant system shows typologically rare diversity. As a consequence of apocope, final consonants that historically used to precede lost final vowels can retain some accommodation features, such as labialization, palatalization or their combination. The absence of synchronic phonetic context provides a ground to regard consonants of this type as phonemes. A separate section of the article deals with the problem of differentiation between the cases of phonetic and phonological reduction and gives an attempt to define the types of word structure which inevitably involve reduction.