Debar dialect
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The Debar dialect ( , Debarski dijalekt) is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia. The Debar dialect is closed with the Reka dialect and the dialect of Galicnik. In the dialect are used a lot of archaic words.
The Debar dialect ( , Debarski dijalekt) is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia. 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 [o] (*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 articles pertaining to the position of the object (see Macedonian grammar) use of the suffix -т for third person singular
References
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