Belogradchik dialect

Belogradchik dialect

The Belogradchik dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Transitional dialects, which is spoken on the westernmost northern slopes of the Balkan mountains in northwestern Bulgaria. It borders on the Northwestern Byala Slatina-Pleven and Vidin-Lom dialect and north, the Sofia dialect to the southeast and the Serbian Torlak dialect to the southwest.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Vocalic r and l for Old Church Slavonic ръ/рь and лъ/ль instead of the combinations ръ/ър (IPA|rə/IPA|ər) and лъ/ъл (IPA|lə/IPA|əl) in Standard Bulgarian (as in the Northwestern dialects): "дрво, слза" instead of "дърво, сълза" (tree, tear)
* Definite articles -ът, -та, -то, -те as in Standard Bulgarian
* The pronoun for 3rd person, sing. feminine agglomerative is "гIPA|ʲу", "нIPA|ʲу" instead of "я" and the pronoun for 3rd person plural dative is "гIPA|ʲим", "гIPA|ʲум" instead of "им"

For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Transitional dialects, cf. Transitional Bulgarian dialects.

ources

Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 2006 [http://www.promacedonia.org/jchorb/st/st_2_b_zap_3.htm#belogradchishki]


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