The Tran dialect is a
Bulgarian dialect, member of the
Transitional dialects, which is spoken in the regions of
Tran and
Godech in central western Bulgaria and in the
Western Outlands
The Western (Bulgarian) Outlands () is a term used by Bulgarians to describe several regions located in southeastern Serbia.
The territories in question were ceded by Bulgaria to the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1920 as a resul ...
. It borders on the
Belogradchik dialect to the north, the
Sofia dialect to the east and the
Breznik dialect to the south.
Phonological and morphological characteristics
* The reflexes of Old Bulgarian ръ/рь and лъ/ль are either vocalic r and l or ър () and лъ(), depending on individual words and subdialects: ''крв'' but ''кърстът'' (blood, the cross) vs. Standard Bulgarian ''кръв'', ''кръстът'' and ''жлт/жлът'' vs. Standard Bulgarian ''жълт'' (yellow)
* Triple definite article (as in the Rhodopean
Smolyan dialect
The Smolyan dialect or Central Rhodope dialect is a Bulgarian dialect of the Rhodopean group of the Rup dialects. Its range includes most of the Central Rhodopes, i.e. the region of Smolyan. Its immediate neighbours are the Rhodopean Hvoyna diale ...
): -ът, -та, -то, -те/та for general cases, -ъв, -ва, -во, -ве/ва for objects situated ''close'' to the speaker and -ън, -на, -но, -не/на for objects situated ''far'' from the speaker. The -ъв/-ън forms have now become obsolete
* Doubling of the definite article for feminine nouns ending on a consonant (as in the Gabrovo subdialect of the
Central Balkan dialect
The Central Balkan dialect is a Bulgarian dialect that is part of the Balkan group of the Eastern Bulgarian dialects. Its range includes most of north-central Bulgaria (without the regions of Dryanovo and Elena), as well as the regions of Karl ...
): ''памет->паметуту'' vs. Standard Bulgarian ''памет->паметта'' (memory->the memory)
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 boundary and are part of the Western Bulgarian dialects. As they have most of the typical characteristics of the North-Western B ...
.
Sources
Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 200
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Dialects of the Bulgarian language