Eastern South Slavic languages
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Eastern South Slavic languages are a branch of the South Slavic language group that includes Bulgarian and Macedonian, characterized by features such as loss of case inflection and the use of postposed definite articles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eastern South Slavic languages canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Slavic languages subgroup
ⓘ
branch of South Slavic languages ⓘ |
| developedFrom |
Common Slavic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Bulgarian (Old Church Slavonic tradition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
Western South Slavic languages by loss of case inflection
ⓘ
Western South Slavic languages by postposed definite article ⓘ |
| geographicalDistribution | eastern part of the South Slavic linguistic area ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
analytic grammatical structure
ⓘ
clitic doubling ⓘ grammaticalized evidentiality in Bulgarian and Macedonian ⓘ lack of infinitive in standard language ⓘ loss of most case inflection in nouns ⓘ object clitics placed in second position in clause ⓘ postposed definite article agreeing with gender and number ⓘ preservation of Slavic aspectual opposition ⓘ rich system of verbal tenses ⓘ three-way definite article system in some varieties ⓘ use of clitic clusters ⓘ use of evidential verb forms ⓘ use of finite verb forms instead of infinitive ⓘ use of postposed definite articles ⓘ use of prepositions instead of case endings ⓘ use of short and long definite articles in Bulgarian ⓘ use of three definite articles in Macedonian (proximal, medial, distal) ⓘ vowel reduction in unstressed syllables in some dialects ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Bulgarian language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Macedonian language ⓘ Shopi dialects ⓘ Transitional Bulgarian–Macedonian dialects ⓘ |
| historicallyInfluencedBy |
Albanian language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Aromanian ⓘ Byzantine Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ Church Slavonic NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottoman Turkish NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish language ⓘ |
| neighboringSubgroup | Western South Slavic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Slavic languages ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Bulgaria
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Macedonia NERFINISHED ⓘ diaspora communities worldwide ⓘ parts of Albania ⓘ parts of Greece ⓘ parts of Romania ⓘ parts of Serbia ⓘ |
| subclassOf |
Balto-Slavic languages
ⓘ
Indo-European language family ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
South Slavic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Cyrillic script
ⓘ
Latin script (in some contexts) ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.