%0 Journal Article
%T Some remarks on the pronunciation of Russian loanwords in Tajik
%A Gacek, Tomasz
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2012
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.12.022.0806
%N Volume 129, Issue 4
%P 353-361
%K Tajik, Persian, Russian, loanword, pronunciation
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2012
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/some-remarks-on-the-pronunciation-of-russian-loanwords-in-tajik
%X 
	Tajik, as opposed to Fārsi and Dari, remained for a century strongly influenced by Russian. As a consequence, its lexicon abounds with borrowings from that language. The article deals with the problem of their pronunciation – are characteristic features of Russian phonology and phonetics preserved in these loanwords? Having analyzed a number of examples one notices that the pronunciation of such words is far from consistent and the idea of a fidelity level may be introduced to explain and classify the differences. This fidelity level depends on various factors, e.g. the education of a native-speaker.