The Debar dialect (, ''Debarski dijalekt'') is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of
dialects
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of
Macedonian. The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of
Debar and the surrounding areas in
North Macedonia
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.
The Debar dialect is closed with the
Reka dialect and the
dialect of Galicnik. In the dialect are used a lot of archaic words.
Phonological characteristics
*fixed accent
*/d͡ʒ/ deaffricated and merged with /ʒ/
*the Proto-Slavic ''*ǫ'' has denasalized to
(*rǫka → рока)
*use of ''o'' instead of the soft form (крв > корв)
*absence of the intervocalic in the plural forms of monosyllabic nouns (e.g. лебо(в)и, дождо(в)и, etc.)
Morphological characteristics
*use of ''ќа'' instead of ''ќе''
*three
definite article
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In English, both "the" ...
s pertaining to the position of the object (see
Macedonian grammar)
*use of the suffix ''-т'' for third person singular
References
{{Macedonian dialects
Dialects of the Macedonian language
Debar Municipality