The Vidin-Lom dialect is a Bulgarian dialect spoken in the regions of

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and Lom and partially in the regions of

Berkovitsa Berkovitsa ( bg, Берковица ) is a town and ski resort in northwestern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Berkovitsa Municipality, Montana Province and is close to the town of Varshets. , it has a population of 13 ...

and

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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

Western Bulgarian dialects Bulgarian (, ; bg, label=none, български, bălgarski, ) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians. Along with the closely related Macedonian la ...

, 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.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

* Ending -м for 1st person sing. present time in all verbs - ''четем, пишем'' instead of formal Bulgarian ''чета, пиша'' (I read, I write) * Future tense particle ''че'' instead of ''ще'' - ''че идем'', ''че направим'' instead of formal Bulgarian ''ще ида'', ''ще направя'' (I will come, I will do). However, with the exception of the future tense particle, all other reflexes of Proto-Slavic / are usually щ/жд (/), as in Standard Bulgarian * Personal pronoun ''йа'' for 1st person sing. and ''он'' for 3rd person sing. (instead of ''аз'' and ''той'' in Standard Bulgarian) 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

{{Bulgarian dialects Dialects of the Bulgarian language

dialect The term dialect (from Latin , , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a ...