Belogradchik dialect
The Belogradchik dialect is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the Bulgarian dialects|Transitional dialects], which is spoken on the westernmost northern slopes of the Balkan Mountains in northwestern Bulgaria. It borders on the Northwestern Byala Slatina-Pleven and Vidin-Lom dialect and north, the Sofia dialect to the southeast and the Serbian Torlak dialect to the southwest.
Phonological and morphological characteristics
- 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
- Definite articles -ът, -та, -то, -те as in Standard Bulgarian
- The pronoun for 3rd person, sing. feminine agglomerative is г҄у, н҄у instead of я and the pronoun for 3rd person plural dative is г҄им, г҄ум instead of им