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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.

— Parteniy Zografski Description of the Macedonian dialect (1858)

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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.

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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.

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

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The third person singular keeps the old suffix т.

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