THE DIALECT OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN OLD-BELIEVERS (HANDWRITTEN DATA)

The article is based on the material of a manuscript The Tale and the Life of Danila Terentievich Zaicev, a voluminous treatise on the life of South American Old-Believers. It was composed by the Old-Believer Danila Terentievich Zaicev himself, in Argentina during 2009-2012. The author writes in Cyrillic civic alphabet used as a phonetic script, so that a plenty of features of spontaneous speech is reflected. The dialect is identified as Central Russian one, with such feature as akanye, but formed on Northern foundation. I analyze phonetic, morphological and syntactic peculiarities of the document; special attention is paid to its rich vocabulary, especially archaisms and neologisms. Besides, I consider borrowings from Spanish and mechanisms of its adaptation to the Russian dialect.