The Belogradchik dialect is a
Bulgarian
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* Something of, from, or related to the country of Bulgaria
* Bulgarians, a South Slavic ethnic group
* Bulgarian language, a Slavic language
* Bulgarian alphabet
* A citizen of Bulgaria, see Demographics of Bulgaria
* Bul ...
dialect, member of the
Transitional dialects, which is spoken on the westernmost northern slopes of the
Balkan mountains
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in northwestern Bulgaria. It borders on the
Northwestern Byala Slatina-Pleven and
Vidin-Lom dialect and north, the
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 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 phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Transitional dialects, cf.
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- ...
.
Sources
Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 200
References
{{Bulgarian dialects
Dialects of the Bulgarian language