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Nodding to indicate "yes" is widespread, and appears in a large number of diverse cultural and linguistic groups. Areas in which nodding generally takes this meaning include the Indian subcontinent (note that the head bobble also shows agreement there), the Middle East, Southeast Asia, most of Europe, South America and North America. Nodding ...
However, in some Southeastern European areas such as Bulgaria [2] and southern Albania, it is used for the opposite purpose, to indicate affirmation, meaning "yes". In those regions, nodding in fact means "no", the complete reverse of most other places in the world. [3]
The commonly cited phenomenon of Bulgarian people shaking their head for "yes" and nodding for "no" is true, but the shaking and nodding are not identical to the Western gestures. The "nod" for no is actually an upward movement of the head rather than a downward one, while the shaking of the head for yes is not completely horizontal, but also ...
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, Map of the Bulgarian dialects within Bulgaria The yat (*ě) split in the Bulgarian language. isogloss clockwise (right or down/left or up of the line) 1. vat- bachva, bochva, etc./bąchva 2.yellow- zhąlt, zhląt, zhąt, etc./zhelt 3. road- pat, put, pot/pąt 4.paw- shąpa, shapa, shaka, etc./shepa isogloss (clockwise)
A Sweet Year: Jewish Celebrations and Festive Recipes for Kids and Their Families by Joan Nathan (Knopf) and My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories by Joan Nathan (Knopf). After a seven ...
The enormous number of palatal or palatalized consonants claimed contradicts the historical development of Bulgarian and the South Slavic languages in general towards depalatalization, especially considering that there were only 9 or 10 palatal consonants in Old and Middle Bulgarian and that four of them have since hardened or are no longer used.