The Debar dialect is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects

Dialects of the Macedonian language

The dialects of Macedonian comprise the Slavic dialects spoken in the Republic of Macedonia as well as some varieties spoken in the wider geographic region of Macedonia. They exist as part of the dialect continuum of South Slavic languages that joins the Macedonian language with Bulgarian to the...

 of the Macedonian language

Macedonian language

Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...

. The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar

Debar

Debar is a city in the western part of the Republic of Macedonia, near the border with Albania, on the road from Struga to Gostivar. It is the seat of Debar Municipality.-Geography:...

 and the surrounding areas in Macedonia. The Debar dialect is closed with the Reka dialect and the dialect of Galicnik

Galicnik

Galičnik is a mountain village in the Republic of Macedonia and along with Lazaropole is one of the two biggest and oldest Mijak villages in the region. Galičnik has well preserved traditional architecture, including an amphitheater in the village square and is famous for its surrounding...

. 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 denazalized 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 article
  Definite Article
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  s pertaining to the position of the object (see Macedonian grammar)
• use of the suffix -т for third person singular