Debar dialect

The Debar dialect (Macedonian: Дебарски дијалект, Debarski dijalekt) is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian.¹ The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia.² 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 [v] 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

Vidoeski, Božo (2005). Dialects of Macedonian. Slavica. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-89357-315-7.
Конески, Блаже; Видоески, Божо (1983). A Historical Phonology of the Macedonian Language. C. Winter, Universitätsverlag. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-3-533-03120-8.

[1] Vidoeski, Božo (2005). Dialects of Macedonian. Slavica. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-89357-315-7.

[2] Конески, Блаже; Видоески, Божо (1983). A Historical Phonology of the Macedonian Language. C. Winter, Universitätsverlag. pp. 121–123. ISBN 978-3-533-03120-8.

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