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Kriva Palanka dialect

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Dialect of Macedonian
Kriva Palanka
Кривопаланечки дијалект
Krivopalanečki dijalekt
Native toNorth Macedonia
RegionKriva Palanka
Native speakersc. 20,000 (2002)
Language familyIndo-European
Writing systemCyrillic (Macedonian alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologkriv1234
IETFmk-u-sd-mk702
Location of the Kriva Palanka dialect among other Macedonian dialects
The Three Saints Excerpt of a story from Ginovci told in Kriva Palanka dialect
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The Kriva Palanka dialect (Macedonian: Кривопаланечки дијалект, Krivopalanečki dijalekt) is a member of the eastern subgroup of the northern group of dialects of Macedonian. This dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Kriva Palanka and surrounding villages.

Phonological characteristics

  • use of A instead of E: трева / treva > трава / trava;
  • use of the letter U instead of the letter A: рака / raka > рука / ruka (hand), пат / pat > пут / put (road);

Morphological characteristics

  • imperfective verbs are typically derived from perfective verbs by means of the suffix –ue (e.g. зборуе and текнуе)
  • use of the preposition U (in).

Personal pronouns

Singular:

  • Ја / ја (I)
  • Ти / ti (you)
  • Он / on (he)
  • Она / ona (she)
  • Оно / ono (it)

References

  1. As the number of speakers is unknown, this figure the population of the Kriva Palanka municipality.
Dialects of Macedonian
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Central
Western and
northwestern
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Eastern
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Southeastern
Eastern
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Also considered a dialect of Bulgarian. Considered to be a part of the transitional Torlak dialect and as a subdialect of Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian.
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