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Quotes from Description of the Macedonian dialect — Parteniy Zografski

d. 1876 Bulgaria

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The letter A has always a full and clear pronunciation, and not, as in the other dialect, a silenced and half-sounded one.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

E and O do not change their pronunciation ever, unlike in the other dialect they do, the first to И and the second to У.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

The cases in personal names are better preserved in the Macedonian dialect, compared to the other one, as we will see in the Grammar.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

The third person singular keeps the old suffix т.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

The Macedonian dialect has verbal adverbs.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

The third person plural in the same vein has a different suffix, but it is not a proper place to describe the details of it now.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

It doesn’t tolerate the following voiced letters Ж and Ш in front of Д and Т, and in that case they are either softened or they keep their hard pronunciation.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

The neuter nouns ending in ле and ре and all possessive nouns in plural end on иња, and not ета, like: поле полиња, море мориња, момче момчиња, книже книжиња.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

In the Macedonian dialect we find the following characteristics

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

The articles defining a locality ов and он, that we have written about earlier in detail, and we will continue to write so we can roll back (negate) some inaccurate opinions that exist about them.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

The “horned” letter Ѫ in the Macedonian dialect is pronounces as a clear A, and in some places as O, for example: рака, мака, лажа, каде, маж and so on, or рока, мока, пот, ложа and so on, instead of рѪка, мѪка, пѪт etc.

Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

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