Razlog dialect

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{{Short description|Dialect of Bulgarian}}
The '''Razlog dialect''' is a Bulgarian dialect, member of the [[Rup dialects|Rup]] dialects. Its range includes the valley of [[Razlog]] in southwestern Bulgaria and its immediate neighbours are the Rup [[Serres-Nevrokop dialect]] to the south, the [[Babyak dialect]] to the east, the [[Samokov dialect|Samokov]] and [[Ihtiman dialect]]s to the north and the [[Blagoevgrad-Petrich dialect]] to the west. It shares a number of phonological characteristics with both the Rup (especially the Rhodopean) and the [[Southwestern Bulgarian dialects|Southwestern dialects]]. This is the dialect through which the Bulgarian language became known to modern science, because in 1822 the creator of the modern Serbian language [[Vuk Karadžić]] published in [[Vienna]] ''Dodatak k sankpeterburgskim sravnitelnim rijechnicima sviju jezika i narijechija s osobitom ogledom Bugarskog jezika'' ;("An addition to the St. Petersburg comparative dictionaries of all languages and dialects with a particular sample of the Bulgarian language"), in which are placed 273 words, a short grammar, 27 folk songs and 2 chapters of the [[gospel]], which he wrote and said to him ''pravi bugarin iz Razloga'';("a real Bulgarian from Razlog").<ref>[http://www.promacedonia.org/bugarash/ed/edinstvoto_makedonija_2.htm 2. Единството на Българския език на диалектно равнище]</ref>

==Phonological and morphological characteristics==
* Broad e ('''{{IPA|æ}}''') for Old Bulgarian [[yat]] in a stressed syllable and ordinary e ('''{{IPA|ɛ}}''') in an unstressed syllable (as in the Rhodopean [[Chepino dialect]]): ''б{{IPA|æ}}л/б{{IPA|æ}}ли'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''бял/бели'' (white) but ''деца'' as in Standard Bulgarian (children).
* Broad e ('''{{IPA|æ}}''') for Old Bulgarian '''я''' in all positions (as in the Rhodopean [[Smolyan dialect|Smolyan]] and [[Hvoyna dialect]]): ''вун{{IPA|æ}}'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''воня'' (stink)
* Vowel '''a''' for Old Bulgarian big yus ѫ and back yer ъ (as in the neighbouring [[Samokov dialect|Samokov]] and [[Ihtiman dialect]]s to the north and the Dorkovo subdialect of the Rhodopean [[Chepino dialect]] to the east): ''зап'' vs. Standard Bulgarian ''зъп'' (tooth), ''даж'до'' vs. Standard Bulgarian ''дъж'дът'' (the rain)
* Schwa ('''{{IPA|ə}}''') for Old Church Slavonic '''лъ/ль''' (as in most [[Southwestern Bulgarian dialects|Southwestern dialects]]): ''съза'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''сълза'' (tear)
* Moderate vowel reduction, as in the rest of the Rup dialects and [[Bulgarian language|Standard Bulgarian]]
* The masculine definite article is '''о''' (in a stressed syllable) and '''у''' (in an unstressed syllable) as in the [[Moesian dialects]], compared to formal Bulgarian '''–ът/ъ''' (''гърˈбо, ˈстолу'' vs. ''гърˈбът, ˈстолът''). However, after a historically soft consonant, the article is '''e''' (cf. a similar trait in the Rup [[Strandzha dialect]]): ''дене'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''ден'ъ(т)'' (the day), ''коне'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''кон'ъ(т)'' (the horse). The masculine definite article for adjectives is ''-йъ'' as in Standard Bulgarian: ''гул{{IPA|æ}}мийъ'' (the big one)
* Dynamic stress (as in Standard Bulgarian): ''маж/ма'же'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''мъж/мъ'жъ(т)'' (the man)
* Lack of ending '''-т''' in the forms for 3rd person pl. present tense: ''яда'' vs. formal Bulgarian ''ядът'' (they eat)

For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Rup or Rhodopean dialects, cf. [[Rup dialects]].

==Noteworthy==
* The first grammatical treatise of Modern Bulgarian published by Serbian scholar [[Vuk Karadzic]] in 1822 (''Додатак к санктпетербургским сравнитељним pjeчницима свиjу jезика и нaрjечиjа c особитим огледом Бугарског jезика'') is based on the grammatical and morphological characteristics of the Razlog dialect
* The first full grammar of Modern Bulgarian published by Bulgarian scholar [[Neofit Rilski]] in 1835 (''Болгарска граматика'') is also based on the grammatical and morphological characteristics of the Razlog dialect

==References==
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==Sources==
* Стойков, Стойко: Българска диалектология, Акад. изд. "Проф. Марин Дринов", 2006 [http://www.promacedonia.org/jchorb/st/st_2_b_izt_3.htm#razlozhki]

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