The Panagyurishte dialect is a

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dialect, which is part of the Balkan group of the Eastern Bulgarian dialects. Its range includes the town of

Panagyurishte Panagyurishte ( bg, Панагюрище, also transliterated ''Panagjurište'', ) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, situated in a small valley in the Sredna Gora mountains. It is 91 km east of Sofia, 43 km north of P ...

, as well as a number of neighbouring villages. The most significant feature of the dialect, as in all

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, is the pronunciation of Old Church Slavonic ѣ (yat) as or , depending on the character of the following syllable.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Transition of into i: ''клич'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''клʲyч'' * Pronunciation of Old Church Slavonic groups ръ/рь and лъ/ль only as ър () and ъл () instead of formal Bulgarian ръ/ър (~) and лъ/ъл (~) - ''сълнце'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''слънце'' (sun), ''кърчма'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''кръчма'' (pub) * Hard consonant endings, especially in verbs: ''молъ'' instead of formal Bulgarian ''мол҄ъ'' The diacritic ◌҄ indicates palatalization. (I ask) Most of the other phonological and morphological characteristics of the Panagyurishte dialect are similar to the general features typical for all

, cf. article.

Sources

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

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References

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