The Hvoyna dialect is a
Bulgarian dialect of the Rhodopean group of the
Rup dialects
The Rup dialects, or the Southeastern dialects, are a group of Bulgarian dialects located east of the yat boundary, thus being part of the Eastern Bulgarian dialects. The range of the Rup dialects includes the southern part of Thrace, i.e. Str ...
. Its range includes the northern part of the Central Rhodopes and the town of
Batak
Batak is a collective term used to identify a number of closely related Austronesian ethnic groups predominantly found in North Sumatra, Indonesia, who speak Batak languages. The term is used to include the Karo, Pakpak, Simalungun, Tob ...
in the Western Rhodopes. Its immediate neighbours are the
Central Balkan dialect to the north, the
Smolyan dialect to the south and the Rhodopean
Chepino dialect
The Chepino dialect is a Bulgarian dialect of the Rhodopean group of the Rup dialects. Its range includes the northwestern Rhodopes, i.e. the towns of Velingrad, Rakitovo and Kostandovo and the villages of Dragichevo and Dorkovo. Its immediate n ...
to the west.
Phonological and morphological characteristics
* Merger of Old Church Slavonic big yus ѫ, little yus ѧ, ь and ъ into ъ () in a stressed syllable and into a slightly reduced a in an unstressed syllable: ''къшта'' (as in formal Bulgarian – house), ''клътва'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''клетва'' (oath)
* Broad e () for Old Church Slavonic
yat
Yat or jat (Ѣ ѣ; italics: ) is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and the Rusyn alphabet.
There is also another version of yat, the iotified yat (majuscule: , minuscule: ), which is a Cyrillic character combining ...
in all positions and regardless of the word stress and the character of the following syllable: ''бл/бли'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''бял/бели'' (white), ''голм''/''голми'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''голям/големи'' (big). The broad e has also replaced Old Bulgarian я in all positions: ''доаштер'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''дъштера'' (daughter)
* Triple definite article: -ът, -та, -то, -т for general cases, -ъс, -са, -со, -с for objects situated ''close'' to the speaker and -ън, -на, -но, -н for objects situated ''far'' from the speaker. The Batak subdialect, however, has a single definite article, as in formal Bulgarian
* A number of well-preserved case forms: common oblique case forms for family and personal names (as in the
Central Balkan dialect, cf. article); dative forms for sing. nouns: ''сину'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''на сина'', etc.
For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Rup or Rhodopean dialects, cf.
Rup dialects
The Rup dialects, or the Southeastern dialects, are a group of Bulgarian dialects located east of the yat boundary, thus being part of the Eastern Bulgarian dialects. The range of the Rup dialects includes the southern part of Thrace, i.e. Str ...
.
Sources
Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 200
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Dialects of the Bulgarian language