The Elin Pelin dialect is a

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dialect, member of the

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, which is spoken in the eastern part of the

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in central western Bulgaria. Its immediate neighbours are the

Vratsa dialect The Vratsa dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Southwestern Bulgarian dialects, which is spoken in the region of Vratsa in northwestern Bulgaria. The Vratsa dialect borders on the transitional Belogradchik dialect to the west, the Nort ...

to the north, the

Botevgrad dialect The Botevgrad dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Southwestern Bulgarian dialects, which is spoken in the region of Botevgrad and Etropole in northwestern Bulgaria. It is located on the yat boundary and is closely related to the Eastern ...

to the east, the

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to the west and the

Samokov dialect The Samokov dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Southwestern Bulgarian dialects, which is spoken in the region of Samokov in central western Bulgaria. Its immediate neighbours are the Sofia dialect and Elin Pelin dialect to the north, ...

to the south.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Vowel a for Old Church Slavonic ѫ (yus), ь and ъ: ''маж'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''мъж'' (man), ''сан'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''сън'' (sleep) * щ/жд (~) for Proto-Slavic ~ (as in Standard Bulgarian) - ''леща, между'' (lentils, between). The future tense particle, however, is ''ше'', ''к҄е'', ''к҄у'' The diacritic ◌҄ indicates palatalization. * 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 - ''дрво, слза'' instead of ''дърво, сълза'' (tree, tear). * Verb ending -a instead of formal Bulgarian -ъ in verbs of the first and second conjugation: ''чет'а'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''чет'ъ'' (I read) For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Southwestern dialects, cf.

Sources

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

References

{{Bulgarian dialects Dialects of the Bulgarian language