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Bulgarian dialects (balgarski dialekti, also ????????? ??????, balgarski govori or ????????? ???????, balgarski narechiya) are the regional spoken varieties of the Bulgarian language, a South Slavic language. Bulgarian dialectology dates to the 1830s and the pioneering work of Neofit Rilski, Bolgarska gramatika (published 1835 in Kragujevac). Other notable researchers in this field include Marin Drinov, Konstantin Josef Jirecek, Lyubomir Miletich, Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan, Stoyko Stoykov.
Bulgarian dialects are part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, linked with Serbian and Macedonian to the west and bordering Albanian, Greek and Turkish to the south, and Romanian to the north.
The dialects of Macedonia were for the most part classified as part of Bulgarian in the older literature
and continue to be treated as such in contemporary Bulgarian linguistics.
Since the second half of the 20th century, foreign authors have mostly adopted the convention of treating these in terms of a separate Macedonian language, following the codification of Macedonian as the literary standard language of Yugoslav Macedonia.
Macedonian authors in turn tend to treat all dialects spoken in the geographical region of Macedonia as Macedonian, including those spoken in the westernmost part of Bulgaria (so-called Pirin Macedonia).
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Bulgarian dialects (balgarski dialekti, also ????????? ??????, balgarski govori or ????????? ???????, balgarski narechiya) are the regional spoken varieties of the Bulgarian language, a South Slavic language. Bulgarian dialectology dates to the 1830s and the pioneering work of Neofit Rilski, Bolgarska gramatika (published 1835 in Kragujevac). Other notable researchers in this field include Marin Drinov, Konstantin Josef Jirecek, Lyubomir Miletich, Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan, Stoyko Stoykov.
Bulgarian dialects are part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, linked with Serbian and Macedonian to the west and bordering Albanian, Greek and Turkish to the south, and Romanian to the north.
The dialects of Macedonia were for the most part classified as part of Bulgarian in the older literature
and continue to be treated as such in contemporary Bulgarian linguistics.
Since the second half of the 20th century, foreign authors have mostly adopted the convention of treating these in terms of a separate Macedonian language, following the codification of Macedonian as the literary standard language of Yugoslav Macedonia.
Macedonian authors in turn tend to treat all dialects spoken in the geographical region of Macedonia as Macedonian, including those spoken in the westernmost part of Bulgaria (so-called Pirin Macedonia). The present article treats all these dialects together, because of their close structural similarity and the fact that many important dialect boundaries intersect both territories.
The main isogloss separating the Bulgarian dialects into Eastern and Western is the Yat border, marking the different mutations of the Old Bulgarian yat form, pronounced as either /?a/ or /?/ to the east (byal, but plural beli, "white") and strictly as /?/ to the west of it (bel, plural beli). In order to avoid political issues, many linguists use interchangeably Western Bulgarian and Macedonian in national and geographical contexts, respectively; however, this is not precise because Western Bulgarian dialects include also non-Macedonian dialects while some dialects in the region of Macedonia (Drama-Ser, Solun, and Korca dialects) are classified as Eastern Bulgarian on the basis of the Yat vowel.
Bulgarian dialects can be divided into the following dialectal groups and individual dialects:
Eastern Bulgarian dialects:
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Western Bulgarian dialects:
| Dialects from Vardar Macedonia
(traditionally treated as part of Bulgarian in Bulgarian sources.)
- Dialects from Aegean Macedonia
(traditionally treated as part of Bulgarian in Bulgarian sources.)
Among the traditional diaspora:
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