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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 (~) and лъ/ъл (~) 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 ''г҄у'', ''н҄у'' The diacritic ◌҄ indicates palatalization. instead of ''я'' and the pronoun for 3rd person plural dative is ''г҄им'', ''г҄ум'' instead of ''им'' For other pho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgarian Language
Bulgarian (, ; bg, label=none, български, bălgarski, ) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians. Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic dialect continuum of the Indo-European language family. The two languages have several characteristics that set them apart from all other Slavic languages, including the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article, and the lack of a verb infinitive. They retain and have further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system (albeit analytically). One such major development is the innovation of evidential verb forms to encode for the source of information: witnessed, inferred, or reported. It is the official language of Bulgaria, and since 2007 has been among the official languages of the Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transitional Bulgarian Dialects
The Transitional Bulgarian dialects are a group of Bulgarian dialects, whose speakers are located west of the Yat border, yat boundary and are part of the Western Bulgarian dialects. As they have most of the typical characteristics of the North-Western Bulgarian dialects, they are sometimes classified as belonging to this subgroup under the name of Extreme North-Western dialects. On Bulgarian territory, the Transitional dialects occupy a narrow strip of land along the Bulgarian border with Serbia, including the regions of Tran, Bulgaria, 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 Bosilegrad). The Transitional dialects are part of the Torlak dialectal group also spoken in southeastern Serbia and North Macedonia and are part of the gradual transition from Bulgarian language, Bulgarian to Serbian language, Serbian. The Bulgarian Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range (, , known locally also as Stara planina) is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border between Bulgaria and Serbia. It then runs for about , first in a south-easterly direction along the border, then eastward across Bulgaria, forming a natural barrier between the northern and southern halves of the country, before finally reaching the Black Sea at Cape Emine. The mountains reach their highest point with Botev Peak at . In much of the central and eastern sections, the summit forms the watershed between the drainage basins of the Black Sea and the Aegean. A prominent gap in the mountains is formed by the sometimes narrow Iskar Gorge, a few miles north of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. The karst relief determines the large number of caves, including Magura, featuring the most important and extended European post-Palaeolithic cave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern Bulgarian Dialects
The Northwestern Bulgarian dialects are two closely related dialects of the Bulgarian language, which are located west of the yat boundary and thus are part of the Western Bulgarian dialects. The range of the dialects includes most of northwestern Bulgaria, to the west of the line between Nikopol, Pleven and Mezdra and to the north of the line between Vratsa and Belogradchik. They bear strong resemblance to their neighbouring Eastern Bulgarian dialects and with some exceptions, mainly the pronunciation of yat, have the same phonological and morphological features as the neighbouring subdialects of the Eastern Bulgarian Central Balkan dialect. Phonological and morphological characteristics * Old Church Slavonic ѣ (yat) is always pronounced as instead of formal Bulgarian я/е (~) – ''бел/бели'' * Vocalic r and l for Old Church Slavonic ръ/рь and лъ/ль instead of the combinations ръ/ър (~) and лъ/ъл (~) in Standard Bulgarian - ''дрво, слза'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byala Slatina-Pleven Dialect
The Byala Slatina-Pleven dialect is a Bulgarian dialect spoken in the regions of Pleven, Byala Slatina and Kula in northwestern Bulgaria. The dialect is part of the Northwestern Bulgarian dialects. The most significant feature of the dialect, as in all Western Bulgarian dialects, is the pronunciation of Old Church Slavonic ѣ (yat) only as instead of formal and Eastern Bulgarian я/е (~) – ''бел/бели'' instead of бял/бели. Otherwise, the Byala Slatina-Pleven dialect bears strong resemblance to its neighbouring Eastern Bulgarian dialects and with some exceptions, mainly the pronunciation of yat, has the same phonological and morphological features as the neighbouring subdialects of the Eastern Bulgarian Central Balkan dialect. Phonological and morphological characteristics * Ending () (in a stressed syllable) and slightly reduced a (in an unstressed syllable) in the verbs of 1st and 2nd conjugation (as in Standard Bulgarian) - ''мръ'', ''пиша'' * Future ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidin-Lom Dialect
The Vidin-Lom dialect is a Bulgarian dialect spoken in the regions of Vidin and Lom and partially in the regions of Berkovitsa and Montana in northwestern Bulgaria. The dialect is part of the Northwestern Bulgarian dialects. The most significant feature of the dialect, as in all Western Bulgarian dialects, is the pronunciation of Old Church Slavonic ѣ (yat) only as instead of formal and Eastern Bulgarian я/е (/) – ''бел/бели'' instead of бял/бели. Phonological and morphological characteristics * Ending -м for 1st person sing. present time in all verbs - ''четем, пишем'' instead of formal Bulgarian ''чета, пиша'' (I read, I write) * Future tense particle ''че'' instead of ''ще'' - ''че идем'', ''че направим'' instead of formal Bulgarian ''ще ида'', ''ще направя'' (I will come, I will do). However, with the exception of the future tense particle, all other reflexes of Proto-Slavic / are usually щ/жд (/), as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofia Dialect
The Sofia dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Southwestern Bulgarian dialects, which is spoken in western part of the Sofia valley by part of the Shopi. Its immediate neighbours are the Vratsa dialect to the north, the Elin Pelin dialect to the east, the Transitional dialects to the west and the Samokov dialect to the south. Phonological and morphological characteristics * Vowel for Old Church Slavonic ѫ (yus), ь and ъ, as in Standard Bulgarian: ''мъж'' (man), ''сън'' (sleep). * Limited number of o reflexes of Old Church Slavonic ъ in the suffix ''-ък'', the prefixes ''въз'' and ''съ'' and the prepositions ''във'', ''въз'' and ''със'': ''сос него'' vs. Standard Bulgarian ''със него'' (with him), ''напредок'' vs. Standard Bulgarian ''напредък'' (progress) * щ/жд (~) for Proto-Slavic ~ (as in Standard Bulgarian) - ''леща, между'' (lentils, between). The future tense particle, however, is ''че'': ''че ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
