The Byala Slatina-Pleven dialect is a

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dialect spoken in the regions of Pleven,

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and Kula in northwestern

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. The dialect is part of the

Northwestern Bulgarian dialects The Northwestern Bulgarian dialects are two closely related dialects of the Bulgarian language, which are located west of the yat boundary and thus are part of the Western Bulgarian dialects. The range of the dialects includes most of northweste ...

. The most significant feature of the dialect, as in all

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, is the pronunciation of Old Church Slavonic ѣ (yat) only as instead of formal and Eastern Bulgarian я/е (~) – ''бел/бели'' instead of бял/бели. Otherwise, the Byala Slatina-Pleven dialect bears strong resemblance to its neighbouring Eastern Bulgarian dialects and with some exceptions, mainly the pronunciation of

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, has the same phonological and morphological features as the neighbouring subdialects of the Eastern Bulgarian

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Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Ending () (in a stressed syllable) and slightly reduced a (in an unstressed syllable) in the verbs of 1st and 2nd conjugation (as in Standard Bulgarian) - ''мръ'', ''пиша'' * Future tense particle ще/ше as in Standard Bulgarian and the

- ''ще/ше ида'' (I will come) * Ending schwa () in stressed syllables of female nouns (as in the

) - ''женˈъ, горˈъ'' (woman, forest) * Pronunciation of the little yus (ѧ) as () - ''шъпа, жътва'' (palm, harvest) * Participles ''ньега''/''гьа'' for 3rd person sing. fem. agglomerative case instead of Standard Bulgarian ''нея''/''я'' Most other phonological and morphological characteristics of the dialect are the same as the general features typical for all

(cf. article for details).

Sources

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

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