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Debar dialect
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The Debar dialect (Macedonian: Дебарски дијалект, Debarski dijalekt) is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian.[1] The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia.[2] The Debar dialect is closed with the Reka dialect and the dialect of Galicnik. In the dialect are used a lot of archaic words.
Phonological characteristics
[edit]- fixed accent
- /d͡ʒ/ deaffricated and merged with /ʒ/
- the Proto-Slavic *ǫ has denasalized to [o] (*rǫka → рока)
- use of o instead of the soft form (крв > корв)
- absence of the intervocalic [v] in the plural forms of monosyllabic nouns (e.g. лебо(в)и, дождо(в)и, etc.)
Morphological characteristics
[edit]- use of ќа instead of ќе
- three definite articles pertaining to the position of the object (see Macedonian grammar)
- use of the suffix -т for third person singular
References
[edit]- ^ Vidoeski, Božo (2005). Dialects of Macedonian. Slavica. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-89357-315-7.
- ^ Конески, Блаже; Видоески, Божо (1983). A Historical Phonology of the Macedonian Language. C. Winter, Universitätsverlag. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-3-533-03120-8.
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1 Also considered a dialect of Bulgarian. 2 Considered to be a part of the transitional Torlak dialect and as a subdialect of Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian. | ||||||