Steppe dialect
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Steppe dialect (Ukrainian: Степовий говір) belongs to the Southeastern group of Ukrainian dialects. Having formed in the 17–19th centuries, it is the youngest Ukrainian dialect, as well as the most widespread geographically.[1]
Steppe dialect is spoken in southern parts of Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk and Luhansk oblasts, as well as in Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Kherson oblasts, Crimea, and parts of Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts. Outside of Ukraine's borders speakers of Steppe dialect live in the Krasnodar Krai of Russia and in southeastern Romania (Danube Delta).[1]