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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.

— Parteniy Zografski Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

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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)

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