Southeastern_Macedonian_dialects

Southeastern Macedonian dialects

Southeastern Macedonian dialects

Group of East South Slavic dialects

The Southeastern Macedonian dialects according to one of the scientific views are one of three groups of Macedonian.

The group is located in the eastern and southeastern areas of North Macedonia, surrounding the cities of Štip, Strumica, and Delčevo. The group also includes Blagoevgrad Province, or Pirin Macedonia, in Bulgaria[citation needed], and Macedonia, or Aegean Macedonia, Greece. The group of Southeastern Macedonian dialects is divided into three subgroups: the eastern group, the southwestern group, and the southeastern group.

Dialects

Yat border in the Bulgarian language, splitting the Southeastern Macedonian dialects in two

Eastern group

Southwestern group

Southeastern group

Based on the main isogloss separating the Bulgarian dialects into Eastern and Western - yat border, some of the Southeastern Macedonian dialects are classified as Eastern Bulgarian.[4][5]

References

  1. [1]
    A comparative historical analysis of nominal accentuation in archaic (Maleševo) and transitional (Nivičino) Eastern Macedonian dialects," in Proceedings of the Third North American-Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies. Indiana Slavic Studies 10:135-151. 1999
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    str. 249- 252 Makedonski jazik za srednoto obrazovanie- S.Bojkovska, D.Pandev, L.Minova-Ǵurkova, Ž.Cvetkovski- Prosvetno delo AD- Skopje 2001
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    str. 249- 252 Makedonski jazik za srednoto obrazovanie- S.Bojkovska, D.Pandev, L.Minova-Ǵurkova, Ž.Cvetkovski- Prosvetno delo AD- Skopje 2001
  4. [4]
    Стойков, Стойко. Българска диалектология, София 2002, с. 83
  5. [5]
    Mladenov, Stefan. Geschichte der bulgarischen Sprache, Berlin, Leipzig, 1929, § 194, 209.
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