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Upper Polog Dialect
The Gostivar dialect ( Macedonian: гостиварски дијалект, ''gostivarski dijalekt'' ) is a member of the western and north western subgroup of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is mainly spoken in the area around the city of Gostivar to the villages Brvenica and Bogovinje on north, Reka region on west, Poreče on east and Galičnik on south. The dialect is closely related with the neighbouring dialects, particularly with the Kičevo-Poreče dialect, Reka dialect and Galičnik dialect. Also in some extent, the dialect shares some similarities with the Tetovo dialect. The dialect is very well known for using masculine forms of direct and indirect objects, for male and female. Phonological characteristics * replacement of the letters ''ќ'' and ''ѓ'' in verbal use with ''ч'' and ''џ'', respectively: куќа (''kukja'') → куча (''kucha''); Ѓурѓа (''Gjurgja'') → Џурџа (''Djurdja'') * the yat has reflexed into цен ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Slavic Dialects
Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North Macedonia * Macedonians (Greeks), the Greek people inhabiting or originating from Macedonia, a geographic and administrative region of Greece * Macedonian Bulgarians, the Bulgarian people from the region of Macedonia * Macedo-Romanians (other), an outdated and rarely used anymore term for the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, both being small Eastern Romance ethno-linguistic groups present in the region of Macedonia * Macedonians (obsolete terminology), an outdated and rarely used umbrella term to designate all the inhabitants of the region, regardless of their ethnic origin, as well as the local Slavs and Macedo-Romanians, as a regional and ethnographic communities and not as a separate ethnic groups Ancient * Ancient Macedonians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reka Dialect
The Reka dialect ( mk, Рекански дијалект, ''Rekanski dijalekt'') is a member of the west and north-west subgroup of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is mainly spoken on the territory of the region Reka in the north-western part of North Macedonia. The Reka dialect is very close with the Galičnik and the Debar Debar ( mk, Дебaр ; Albanian: ''Dibër''/''Dibra'' or ''Dibra e Madhe;'' ) is a city in the western part of North Macedonia, near the border with Albania, off the road from Struga to Gostivar. It is the seat of Debar Municipality. Debar has ... dialects. This dialect contains a lot of archaic words. Phonological characteristics *High frequency of the consonant '' f'' (ф) *Low frequency of the consonant '' dž'' (џ), replacing it with '' ž'' (ж) or ''žd'' (жд) *Use of ''o'' instead of ''a'' Morphological characteristics *The end of the verbs from the ''a'' group are frequently pronounced as verbs from the ''e'' gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gostivar Municipality
Gostivar ( mk, Гостивар ; sq, Komuna e Gostivarit) is a municipality in the western part of North Macedonia. * ''Gostivar'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. ** Gostivar Municipality is part of the Polog Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders * the Mavrovo and Rostuša, Kičevo municipalities to the south, * Makedonski Brod Municipality to the east, * Brvenica and Vrapčište municipalities to the north, and * Albania and Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ... to the west. Demographics The municipality has 35 inhabited places, one town and 34 villages. According to the last national census from 2021 this municipality has 59,770 inhabitants. History Several villages were burned down in Gostivar dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dialects Of The Macedonian Language
The dialects of Macedonian comprise the Slavic languages, Slavic dialects spoken in the Republic of North Macedonia as well as some variety (linguistics), varieties spoken in the wider geographic region of Macedonia (region), Macedonia. They are part of the dialect continuum of South Slavic languages that joins Macedonian language, Macedonian with Bulgarian language, Bulgarian to the east and Torlakian to the north into the group of the Eastern South Slavic languages. The precise delimitation between these languages is fleeting and controversial. Macedonian authors tend to treat all dialects spoken in the geographical region of Macedonia as Macedonian, including those spoken in the westernmost part of Bulgaria (so-called Pirin Macedonia), whereas Bulgarian authors treat all Macedonian dialects as part of the Bulgarian language. Prior to the Codification (linguistics), codification of standard Macedonian in 1945, the dialects of Macedonia were for the most part classified as Bulgaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Grammar
The grammar of Macedonian is, in many respects, similar to that of some other Balkan languages (constituent languages of the '' Balkan sprachbund''), especially Bulgarian. Macedonian exhibits a number of grammatical features that distinguish it from most other Slavic languages, such as the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article, the lack of an infinitival verb, and the constructions with ima/nema formed with the auxiliary "''to have''", among others. The first printed Macedonian grammar was published by Gjorgjija Pulevski in 1880. on the site of MANU. Orthography The Macedonian orthography (правопис, ''pravopis'') encompasses the and |
Definite Article
An article is any member of a class of dedicated words that are used with noun phrases to mark the identifiability of the referents of the noun phrases. The category of articles constitutes a part of speech. In English, both "the" and "a(n)" are articles, which combine with nouns to form noun phrases. Articles typically specify the grammatical definiteness of the noun phrase, but in many languages, they carry additional grammatical information such as gender, number, and case. Articles are part of a broader category called determiners, which also include demonstratives, possessive determiners, and quantifiers. In linguistic interlinear glossing, articles are abbreviated as . Types Definite article A definite article is an article that marks a definite noun phrase. Definite articles such as English ''the'' are used to refer to a particular member of a group. It may be something that the speaker has already mentioned or it may be otherwise something uniquely specified. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetovo Dialect
The Tetovo dialect ( mk, Тетовски дијалект, ''Tetovski dijalekt'') is a member of the western subgroup of the northern group of dialects of Macedonian. It is considered part of the transitional Torlakian dialects. It is spoken by the population in the north-western part of North Macedonia. This dialect is spoken in the city of Tetovo, Brvenica and Jegunovce Municipality (without the villages Vratnica, Belovište, Staro Selo and Rogačevo who speak the Vratnica dialect). One of the main characteristics of this dialect is the use of the words ''таќе'' (taḱe) – "on that way" and ''ваќе'' (vaḱe) – "on this way". The Tetovo dialect can be found in several books, two of which were written by Kiril Peychinovich Kiril Peychinovich or Kiril Pejčinoviḱ ( bg, Кирил Пейчинович, sr, Кирил Пејчиновић, mk, Кирил Пејчиновиќ, Old Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic: Күриллъ Пейчиновићь (c. 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galičnik Dialect
The Galičnik dialect ( mk, Галички дијалект, ''Galički dijalekt'') or Mala Reka dialect ( mk, Малорекански дијалект, ''Malorekanski dijalekt'') is a member of the subgroup of western and north western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is spoken on small territory on the mountain Bistra in western part of the Republic of Macedonia. The name of the dialect is derived by the biggest village in that area- Galičnik. Also the dialect is spoken in many other small villages including the village Gari. The Galičnik dialect is closely related with the Reka dialect which is spoken north-western of Galičnik dialect. This dialect is well known in Republic of Macedonia because of the archaic words that this dialect has. The dialect can be found in many historically important literary works for the Macedonian literature. One of the most important is Ǵorǵija Puleski and his dictionary of three languages.стр.259 - 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kičevo-Poreče Dialect
The Kičevo-Poreče dialect ( mk, Кичевско-поречки дијалект, ''Kičevsko-porečki dijalekt'') is a member of the central subgroup of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is spoken in a vast area in North Macedonia and mainly in the cities Kičevo and Makedonski Brod. It is also native to the villages of the region Poreče, such as Samokov and those around Kičevo. Because of the migration of the population from Poreče, the dialect is spoken in the region of Polog and in the capital Skopje. The Kičevo-Poreče dialect is closely related to the Prilep-Bitola dialect, Gostivar dialect with which they share many common characteristics.Kichevo dialect (1957), Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts This dialect can be found in many books and novels, and one of the more popular is the novel "Milion mačenici" by Risto Krle. The Kičevo-Poreče dialect has a significantly small number of Serbian and Turkish loan words than the Macedonian di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around two million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia. Most speakers can be found in the country and its diaspora, with a smaller number of speakers throughout the transnational region of Macedonia. Macedonian is also a recognized minority language in parts of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Serbia and it is spoken by emigrant communities predominantly in Australia, Canada and the United States. Macedonian developed out of the western dialects of the East South Slavic dialect continuum, whose earliest recorded form is Old Church Slavonic. During much of its history, this dialect continuum was called "Bulgarian", although in the 19th century, its western dialects came to be known separately as "Macedonian". Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galičnik
Galičnik ( mk, Галичник) is a mountain village in North Macedonia and along with Lazaropole is one of the two biggest and oldest Mijak villages in the region. Galičnik has well-preserved traditional architecture, including an amphitheater in the village square, and is famous for its surrounding countryside and nature reserve. People from Galičnik and northwestern North Macedonia appreciate the local yellow cheese kaškaval (''Kashkaval'') that is produced in the region as well as the local salt brine white cheese "belo sirenje" which is a homemade speciality for this region. Location It is located on the slopes of the Bistra Mountain, some 10 km from the artificial Mavrovo Lake and the ''Zare Lazarevski'' winter resort. History The village is located in the ethnographic region of "Mijačija", named after the Mijaks (Мијаци/Mijaci), the tribe historically inhabiting this mountainous region. This region has plentiful rich pastures for livestock grazing and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poreče
Poreče, Porečie or Porečje or Poreč ( mk, Порече, Поречие, Поречје or Poreč), is a region in North Macedonia which includes the Makedonski Brod Municipality, and the western part of the Prilep Municipality Prilep ( mk, Прилеп ) is a municipality in the south of North Macedonia. ''Prilep'' is also the name of the city where the municipal seat is found. It is located in the Pelagonia Statistical Region. Geography The municipality borders Ča .... During the Balkan wars, Serbian chetniks massacred 50 Albanian families in the Poreče village of Drenovo. The village of Brod was considered by Serbian authorities to be a "haven for evildoers of Kičevo". Its possible that Haki Efendi of Teqe, a contemporary Albanian political leader was from the village of Brod, which at the time had a Bektashi tekke. References Geography of North Macedonia Makedonski Brod Municipality Prilep Municipality {{Prilep-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
