The Belogradchik dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Transitional dialects, which is spoken on the westernmost northern slopes of the Balkan mountains in northwestern Bulgaria. It borders on the Northwestern Byala Slatina-Pleven and Vidin-Lom dialect and north, the Sofia dialect to the southeast and the Serbian Torlak dialect to the southwest.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Vocalic r and l for Old Church Slavonic ръ/рь and лъ/ль instead of the combinations ръ/ър (~) and лъ/ъл (~) in Standard Bulgarian (as in the Northwestern dialects): ''дрво, слза'' instead of ''дърво, сълза'' (tree, tear) * Definite articles -ът, -та, -то, -те as in Standard Bulgarian * The pronoun for 3rd person, sing. feminine agglomerative is ''г҄у'', ''н҄у'' The diacritic ◌҄ indicates palatalization. instead of ''я'' and the pronoun for 3rd person plural dative is ''г҄им'', ''г҄ум'' instead of ''им'' For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Transitional dialects, cf.

Transitional Bulgarian dialects The Transitional Bulgarian dialects are a group of Bulgarian dialects, whose speakers are located west of the yat boundary and are part of the Western Bulgarian dialects. As they have most of the typical characteristics of the North-Western B ...

Sources

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

References

{{Bulgarian dialects Dialects of the Bulgarian language