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Dialect systems, especially island and resettlement, are more conservative and less dynamic in comparison with an actively developing literary language. The oral form of existence of a dialect predetermines a careful attitude to the language and cultural facts leading to the self-identification of an ethnoconfessional community. The preser- vation – in dialects of Local (Lower) Pechora of the Ust-Tsilemsky Region of the Komi Republic of the Russian Federation – of options of phraseological units which, having undergone lexical, structural or semantic transformation, have become steady turns of the literary language is discussed in this article