Lerin dialect (Лерински говор)

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.

Kostur dialect (Костурски говор)

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.

Labro Koroloff paper on the dialect of Zhèrveni

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Notes on the Dialect of Zhèrveni, Kostur Region, as Spoken by Their Descendants in Mustafapaşa and Cemilköy, Turkey

Larry Labro Koroloff
Independent researcher, Canada

Abstract

The article dwells upon the dialect of the people of Bulgarian origin in Mustafapaşa and Cemilköy, Turkey, descending from the village of Zhèrveni in Kostur region (Aegean Macedonia). The general outline of some peculiarities of the dialect's phonology is presented as well as some lexical differences between the Christian dialect in the neighbouring villages and the Muslim dialect of Zhèrveni. Three songs in Zhèrveni dialect are published for the first time.

Bulgarian dialects

Bulgarian dialects (гòвори) are part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, linked with Serbian to the west and bordering Albanian, Greek and Turkish to the south, and Romanian to the north. All Slavic dialects spoken in the geographical regions of Macedonia, Thrace, Moesia, and Dobrudzha are dialects of the Bulgarian language. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Report from Visoka

Дописка от село Висока

Дописка от село Висока, днес Оса, Солунско, вестник „Съветник“, № 29, 7 октомври 1863. Написано на солунски диалект. Правописът е запазен.

Transitional dialects

Transitional dialects are spread about the two sides of today's Bulgarian-Serb border and are a gradual transition between Bulgarian and Serbian languages. Bulgarian are those dialects that were spoken inside the borders of Bulgaria before 1918, namely the dialects around Belogradchik, western of Berkovitsa, around Tsaribrod, Trən, Breznik, and Bosilegrad, known as Belogradchik-Trən dialect. Serbian are the dialects west of the border around Knjaževac, Pirot, Leskovac, and Vranja.

Solun dialect

Solun dialect is a Bulgarian dialect spoken in the vicinity of Solun (Greek: Saloniki, Thessaloniki). This dialect is best represented in the villages of Visoka [2], Suho, and Zarovo, [3] near Lagadin, to the north of Solun. In addition to these, Solun dialect mixed with the neighboring Kukush-Voden dialect, is spoken in the villages of Negovan, Gradobor, Ayvatovo, Novo selo, Balevets, Kirechkyoy, Kliseli (Ilinets). [4][1] It is universally accepted that Solun dialect has preserved best the features of the Bulgarian language at the time of Cyril and Methodius. [6][7]