The majority of consonants in this language are "paired," meaning that they can occur in either plain or palatalized forms. The literary form of this language combines the consonant system of its Northern dialect and the vowel system of its Southern dialect, and it uses such letters as "yah" and "shah." The most widely spoken of the eastern Slavic languages, it is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. For 10 points, name this language, which is closely related to Ukrainian a
The majority of consonants in this language are "paired," meaning that they can occur in either plain or palatalized forms. The literary form of this language combines the consonant system of its Northern dialect and the vowel system of its Southern dialect, and it uses such letters as "yah" and "shah." The most widely spoken of the eastern Slavic languages, it is written in the Cyrillic alphabet. For 10 points, name this language, which is closely related to Ukrainian and is the most common native tongue in Volgograd, St. Petersburg, and Moscow.
The majority of consonants in this language are "paired," meaning that they can occur in either plain or palatalized forms.