19 November 2022

Lerin dialect is spoken in and around the town of Lerin (Φλώρινα) in northwestern Greece. Its territory is north and northeast from the mountain wreath composed by the Nered Mountain with Vich and Bigla Mountain. To the east its border with the Kaylyar-Voden subdialect goes to the direction from Rudnik to Ostrovo Lake. To the north its border with Bitola-Mariovo dialects goes approximately along the today state border between North Macedonia and Greece. It is divided in four subdialects.

13 November 2022

Kostur dialect is spoken in the territory around the town of Kostur (Καστοριά) (Kostursko) in northwestern Greece, in the village of Vrъbnik (Vërnik) and in the town of Bilishcha (Bilisht) on Albanian territory, and in Novo Konomladi near Petrich in Bulgaria. To the southwest, Kostursko borders Epirus and Korchansko – a natural border is Mount Gramos with its foothills. To the north, the Vich mountain and the Nered mountain connect this area with Lerinsko. To the northwest the Gorbets mountain separates Kostursko from Dolnoprespansko, and the Snezhnik (Sinyachko) mountain, located in the southeast, separates it from Kaylyarsko and Kozhansko.

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