The Strandzha dialect is a dialect of the

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, member of the Rup or Southeastern Bulgarian dialects. The present range of the dialect includes the Bulgarian part of

Strandzha Strandzha ( bg, Странджа, also transliterated as ''Strandja'', ; tr, Istranca , or ) is a mountain massif in southeastern Bulgaria and the European part of Turkey. It is in the southeastern part of the Balkans between the plains of T ...

. In the past, the dialect was spoken on a much larger territory and extended far down into

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, now in

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. Following the

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, the Bulgarian population there was forced to flee to

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, settling mostly in the regions of

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and Varna in eastern

Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Existence of long soft consonants л , н , к and г : ''сиренн҄е'' The diacritic ◌҄ indicates palatalization. vs. formal Bulgarian ''сирене'' (cheese) * Transition of soft t and d into soft k and g (also typical for the

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, cf. article): ''вжг҄и'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''вежди'' (eyebrows) * The masculine definite article is -ът after a hard syllable and -ет after a soft syllable: ''гърбът'', ''мъжет'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''гърбът'', ''мъжът'' (the back, the man) * A number of lexical peculiarities, e.g. ''потон'' vs. common Bulgarian ''под'' (floor) For other phonological and morphological characteristics that are typical for all Rup dialects, cf.

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Sources

Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 200

References

{{Bulgarian dialects Dialects of the Bulgarian language