The Hvoyna dialect is a Bulgarian dialect of the Rhodopean group of the

Rup dialects The Rup dialects (), or the Southeastern dialects, are a group of Bulgarian dialects located east of the yat boundary, thus being part of the Eastern dialect. The range of the Rup dialects includes the southern part of Bulgaria, i.e. Strandzha, ...

. Its range includes the northern part of the Central Rhodopes and the town of

Batak Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian peoples, Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo people ( ...

in the Western Rhodopes. Its immediate neighbours are the Central Balkan dialect to the north, the

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 di ...

to the south and the Rhodopean Chepino dialect to the west.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Merger of Old Church Slavonic big yus ѫ, little yus ѧ, ь and ъ into ъ () in a stressed syllable and into a slightly reduced a in an unstressed syllable: ''къшта'' (as in formal Bulgarian – house), ''клътва'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''клетва'' (oath) * Broad e () for Old Church Slavonic

yat Yat or jat (Ѣ ѣ; italics: ''Ѣ ѣ'') is the thirty-second letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet, old Cyrillic alphabet. It is usually Romanization, romanized as E with a haček: ''Ě ě''. There is also another version of y ...

in all positions and regardless of the word stress and the character of the following syllable: ''бл/бли'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''бял/бели'' (white), ''голм''/''голми'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''голям/големи'' (big). The broad e has also replaced Old Bulgarian я in all positions: ''доаштер'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''дъштера'' (daughter) * Triple definite article: -ът, -та, -то, -т for general cases, -ъс, -са, -со, -с for objects situated ''close'' to the speaker and -ън, -на, -но, -н for objects situated ''far'' from the speaker. The Batak subdialect, however, has a single definite article, as in formal Bulgarian * A number of well-preserved case forms: common oblique case forms for family and personal names (as in the Central Balkan dialect, cf. article); dative forms for sing. nouns: ''сину'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''на сина'', etc. For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Rup or Rhodopean dialects, cf.

Sources

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hvoyna Dialect Dialects of the Bulgarian language