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.

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Label Occurrences
Eastern South Slavic languages canonical 1

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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)

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Torlakian dialects transitionalBetween Eastern South Slavic languages