The Sofia dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the

Southwestern Bulgarian dialects The Southwestern Bulgarian dialects are a group of Bulgarian dialects which are located west of the yat boundary and are part of the Western Bulgarian dialects. The range of the Southwestern dialects on the territory of Bulgaria includes most of ...

, which is spoken in western part of the

Sofia valley The Sofia Valley ( bg, Софийска котловина, Sofiyska kotlovina), or Sofia Field ( bg, Софийско поле, Sofiysko pole, link=no), is a valley in central western Bulgaria bordering Stara Planina to the northeast, the Viskyar ...

by part of the

Shopi Shopi or Šopi ( South Slavic: Шопи) is a regional term, used by a group of people in the Balkans. The areas traditionally inhabited by the ''Shopi'' or ''Šopi'' is called ''Shopluk'' or ''Šopluk'' (Шоплук), a mesoregion, roughly ...

. Its immediate neighbours are the

Vratsa dialect The Vratsa dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Southwestern Bulgarian dialects, which is spoken in the region of Vratsa in northwestern Bulgaria. The Vratsa dialect borders on the transitional Belogradchik dialect to the west, the Nort ...

to the north, the Elin Pelin dialect to the east, the Transitional dialects to the west and the

Samokov dialect The Samokov dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Southwestern Bulgarian dialects, which is spoken in the region of Samokov in central western Bulgaria. Its immediate neighbours are the Sofia dialect and Elin Pelin dialect to the north, ...

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 че'теме'' vs. Standard Bulgarian ''ще четем'' * ръ () and лъ () for Old Church Slavonic groups ръ/рь and лъ/ль versus formal Bulgarian ръ/ър (/) and лъ/ъл (/): ''дръво, слъза'' instead of formal Bulgarian ''дърво, сълза'' (tree, tear). * Ending -м in verbs of all conjugations: ''че'тем'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''чет'ъ'' (I read) * Lack of ending -т in the forms for 3rd person pl. present tense: ''яда'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''ядът'' (they eat) * Personal pronouns for 3rd person он, она, оно, они (той, т҄а, The diacritic ◌҄ indicates palatalization. то, те in Standard Bulgarian) For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Southwestern dialects, cf.

Sources

Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 200

References

{{Bulgarian dialects Dialects of the Bulgarian language