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, surrounding the cities of

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. The group also includes

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, in

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. The group of Southeastern Macedonian dialects is divided into three subgroups: the eastern group, the southwestern group, and the southeastern group.

Dialects

Eastern group

* Tikveš-Mariovo dialect * Štip-Strumica dialect * Maleševo-Pirin dialect

Southwestern group

* Nestram-Kostenar dialect * Korča dialect * Kostur dialect

Southeastern group

* Solun-Voden dialect * Ser-Drama-Lagadin-Nevrokop dialect Based on the main

isogloss An isogloss, also called a heterogloss, is the geographic boundary of a certain linguistics, linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or the use of some morphological or syntactic feature. Isoglosses are a ...

separating the Bulgarian dialects into Eastern and Western -

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border, some of the Southeastern Macedonian dialects are classified as Eastern Bulgarian.Mladenov, Stefan. Geschichte der bulgarischen Sprache, Berlin, Leipzig, 1929, § 194, 209.

References

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