Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ser-Drama-Lagadin-Nevrokop Dialect, Solun-Voden Dialect, Torlak, Maleevo-Pirin Dialect, Bulgarian Dialects, Rup Dialects, Meshterski, Transitional Bulgarian Dialects, Southwestern Bulgarian Dialects, Smolyan Dialect, Razlog Dialect, Paulician Dialect, Subbalkan Dialect, Teteven Dialect, Balkan Dialects, Chepino Dialect, Central Balkan Dialect, Kyustendil Dialect, Moesian Dialects, Northwestern Bulgarian Dialects, Dupnitsa Dialect, Pirdop Dialect, Erkech Dialect, Shumen Dialect, Zlatograd Dialect, Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo Dialect, Samokov Dialect, Sofia Dialect, Hvoyna Dialect, Babyak Dialect, Botevgrad Dialect, Byala Slatina-Pleven Dialect, Vidin-Lom Dialect, Ihtiman Dialect, Tran Dialect, Breznik Dialect, Elin Pelin Dialect, Strandzha Dialect, Thracian Dialect, Panagyurishte Dialect, Belogradchik Dialect, Vratsa Dialect. Excerpt: The Babyak dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Rup or Southeastern Bulgarian dialects. It is spoken in several mountainous villages on the western fringes of the Rhodopes and is thus sandwiched between the Chepino dialect on the east and northeast and the Razlog dialect to the south and west. It shares a number of phonological characteristics with both the Rup (especially the Rhodopean) and the Southwestern dialects . Because of its specific reflexes of Old Church Slavonic yat, it is generally classified as a Rup dialect but is actually transitional between the two dialectal groups. Phonological and morphological characteristics For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Rup or Rhodopean dialects, cf. Rup dialects . Sources:, . .
" .," 2006 A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Yat border in the Bulgarian language The Balkan dialects are the most extensive group of dialects of the Bulgarian language, c...
