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The main isogloss separating the Bulgarian dialects into Eastern and Western is the yat border, marking the different mutations of the Old Bulgarian yat form (ѣ, *ě), pronounced as either /ʲa/ or /ɛ/ to the east (byal, but plural beli in Balkan dialects, "white") and strictly as /ɛ/ to the west of it (bel, plural beli) throughout former ...
Map of the Bulgarian dialects within Bulgaria Strong reduction of unstressed broad vowels /a/ , /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ , which are usually transformed into /ə/ , /i/ and /u/ . In contrast, Standard Bulgarian allows only moderate reduction of /a/ and /ɔ/ and does not allow any reduction of /ɛ/ , i.e. the formal norm is a compromise between Eastern and ...
English: A map of geographical extension of dialects of languages that belong into South Slavic group (Slovene, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian). Bigger groups of dialect are named. Slovene and Kajkavian are further split by thin grey lines to indicate dialects. Legend: Slovene:
The future tense particle is, however, different in the different dialects: ще, ше, че, к҄е, к҄у [2] Map of the Bulgarian dialects within Bulgaria. The reflex of Old Church Slavonic ѫ (yus) is generally a, with the exception of the Sofia dialect where it is ъ (ə): каща vs. formal Bulgarian къща (house)
The transitional nature of the dialect is further demonstrated by the reflexes of the Proto-Slavic *tʲ / *dʲ: from the typically Bulgarian щ/жд (ʃt / ʒd) in the Blagoevgrad-Petrich dialect and the far East of the Maleshevo dialect, along the border with Bulgaria, through the transitional шч/жџ (ʃtʃ / /dʒ/) in the central parts ...
On Bulgarian territory, the Transitional dialects occupy a narrow strip of land along the Bulgarian border with Serbia, including the regions of Tran, Breznik, Godech, Chiprovtsi and Belogradchik. They also cross the border to include the dialects or subdialects of the Bulgarian minority in the Western Outlands (the regions of Tsaribrod and ...
Pages in category "Dialects of the Bulgarian language" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Whereas the Western Bulgarian dialects have only [ɛ] for yat in all positions and the Balkan dialects have [ʲa] or [ɛ], depending on the character of the following syllable, the Rup dialects feature a number of different reflexes, none of which is similar to the ones in the Western Bulgarian or the Balkan dialects.