- Ihtiman dialect
The Ihtiman dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the
Southwestern Bulgarian dialects , which is spoken in the regions ofIhtiman ,Kostenets andSeptemvri in central western Bulgaria. It is transitional between the Botevgrad andSamokov dialect .Phonological and morphological characteristics
* Vowel a for Old Church Slavonic Unicode |ѫ (yus), ь and ъ: "маж" vs. formal Bulgarian "мъж" (man), "сан" vs. formal Bulgarian "сън" (sleep). o for Old Church Slavonic ъ exists only in the preposition and prefix "въз"
* Schwa (IPA|ə) for Old Church Slavonic лъ/ль before non-labial consonants and u before labial consonants (as in the Samokov dialect): "съза" vs. formal Bulgarian "сълза" (tear), "вуна" vs. formal Bulgarian "вълна" (wool)
* Lack of soft consonants at the end of the word
* The masculine definite article is -a, as in thePirdop dialect : "кра'ка" (the leg)
* Verb ending -a in verbs of the first and second conjugation: "чет'а" vs. formal Bulgarian "чет'ъ" (I read)
* Future tense particle is ше and ще (ще in all cases in Standard Bulgarian)
* Personal pronouns for 3rd person той, тIPA|ʲа, то, те as in Standard BulgarianFor other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Southwestern dialects, cf.
Southwestern Bulgarian dialects .ources
Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 2006 [http://www.promacedonia.org/jchorb/st/st_2_b_zap_2.htm#ihtimanski]
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