Debar dialect
{{Short description|Dialect of Macedonian}}
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The Debar dialect ({{langx|mk|Дебарски дијалект}}, Debarski dijalekt) is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian.{{Cite book |last=Vidoeski |first=Božo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twR-AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Debar%20dialect%22%20-wikipedia |title=Dialects of Macedonian |date=2005 |publisher=Slavica |isbn=978-0-89357-315-7 |pages=24–25 |language=en}} The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia.{{Cite book |last1=Конески |first1=Блаже |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srhiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Debar%20dialect%22%20-wikipedia |title=A Historical Phonology of the Macedonian Language |last2=Видоески |first2=Божо |date=1983 |publisher=C. Winter, Universitätsverlag |isbn=978-3-533-03120-8 |pages=121–123 |language=en}} The Debar dialect is closed with the Reka dialect and the dialect of Galicnik. In the dialect are used a lot of archaic words.
Phonological characteristics
- fixed accent
- /d͡ʒ/ deaffricated and merged with /ʒ/
- the Proto-Slavic *ǫ has denasalized to [o] (*rǫka → рока)
- use of o instead of the soft form (крв > корв)
- absence of the intervocalic {{IPA|[v]}} in the plural forms of monosyllabic nouns (e.g. лебо(в)и, дождо(в)и, etc.)
Morphological characteristics
- use of ќа instead of ќе
- three definite articles pertaining to the position of the object (see Macedonian grammar)
- use of the suffix -т for third person singular