Eastern Bulgarian dialects

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Eastern Bulgarian dialects are a group of regional varieties of Bulgarian spoken in the eastern part of Bulgaria, distinguished by specific phonological and grammatical features.

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Eastern Bulgarian dialects canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bulgarian dialect group
Eastern South Slavic dialect group
basisOf morphological system of Standard Bulgarian
phonological system of Standard Bulgarian
contrastedWith Western Bulgarian dialects
country Bulgaria
distinguishedBy lexical differences from Western Bulgarian dialects
reflex of Old Bulgarian yat vowel
specific stress patterns in some subdialects
documentedIn dialect atlases of the Bulgarian language
geographicBoundary approximate isogloss line near the city of Lovech
approximate isogloss line near the city of Pleven
hasGrammaticalFeature analytic verb forms
loss of case inflection except in pronouns
rich system of verbal aspect
three-way definite article system in many subdialects
use of clitic doubling in some subdialects
use of evidential verb forms similar to standard Bulgarian
use of postposed definite article
use of prepositions instead of case endings
use of short and long definite articles in masculine singular nouns in many subdialects
hasPhonologicalFeature /e/ reflex of Old Bulgarian yat in unstressed syllables in many subdialects
palatalization of some consonants before front vowels
predominantly /ʲa/ reflex of Old Bulgarian yat in stressed syllables
reduction of unstressed vowels
yat fronting
hasSubgroup Balkan dialects of Bulgarian
Moesian dialects of Bulgarian
Rup dialects of Bulgarian
historicalDevelopment developed from Eastern Old Bulgarian dialects
influencedBy Bulgarian language
surface form: Standard Bulgarian
languageBranch Slavic languages
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
languageGroup South Slavic languages
languageSubgroup Eastern South Slavic languages
partOf Bulgarian language
spokenIn Moesia
Thrace
eastern Bulgaria
parts of the Balkan Mountains region
status primarily spoken varieties
studiedIn Bulgarian dialectology
subclassOf Bulgarian language dialects
usedBy ethnic Bulgarians
usedIn informal communication
local folklore
regional literature
writingSystem Cyrillic script (when written)

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Bulgarian language hasDialects Eastern Bulgarian dialects