The Reka dialect (, ''Rekanski dijalekt'') is a member of the west and north-west subgroup of the western group of
dialects
A dialect is a variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standardized varieties as well as vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardized varieties, such as those used in developing countries or iso ...
of
Macedonian. The dialect is mainly spoken on the territory of the region
Reka in the north-western part of
North Macedonia
North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...
. The Reka dialect is very close with the
Galičnik and the
Debar dialects. This dialect contains a lot of archaic words.
Phonological characteristics
*High frequency of the consonant ''
f'' (ф)
*Low frequency of the consonant ''
dž
Dž ( titlecase form; all- capitals form DŽ, lowercase dž) is the seventh letter of the Gaj's Latin alphabet for Serbo-Croatian ( Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian), after D and before Đ.
It is pronounced or , like "j" in Engl ...
'' (џ), replaced with ''
ž'' (ж) or ''žd'' (жд)
*Use of ''o'' instead of ''a''
Morphological characteristics
*The end of the verbs from the ''a'' group are frequently pronounced as verbs from the ''e'' group (''играат'' > ''играет'')
*Use of the three articles
*Use of the suffix ''-т'' for the third person singular
*Use of the preposition ''во/в''
Notes
{{Macedonian dialects
Dialects of the Macedonian language