Russian language spoken by foreigners in XVI-XVII

Abstract

The present paper describes how the foreigners perceived and reproduced the Russian words in XVI-XVII according to the facts described in the Notes of Moskoviya by S. Herberstein and A. Olearius. The authors examine a graphic and phonetic presentation of the Russian words as well as change in their morphological appearance and lexical meaning under the influence of the native language.

Keywords

• чужая речь
• родная речь
• способ передачи
• слово