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	The '''Prilep-Bitola dialect''' ({{lang-mk\|Прилепско-битолски дијалект}}, ''Prilepsko-bitolski dijalekt'') is a member of the central subgroup of the western group of ] of the ]. This dialect is mainly spoken in the towns of ] and ] and in surrounding areas in the ], as well as by the ] population in and around ] (Lerin)<ref>'''author missing'''. Леринскиот говор. Македонски jазик, 1983, ХХХIV, стр. 23-49.</ref><ref>Hill, Peter. The Dialect of Gorno Kalenik 1991, Columbus, OH</ref> in neighbouring ]. The Prilep-Bitola dialect, along with other peripheral west-central dialects, provides much of the basis for modern ].<ref>Makedonska gramatika by Krume Kepeski		The '''Prilep-Bitola dialect''' ({{lang-mk\|Прилепско-битолски дијалект}}, ''Prilepsko-bitolski dijalekt'') is a member of the central subgroup of the western group of ] of the ]. This dialect is mainly spoken in the towns of ] and ] and in surrounding areas in the ], as well as by the ] population in and around ] (Lerin)<ref>'''author missing'''. Леринскиот говор. Македонски jазик, 1983, ХХХIV, стр. 23-49.</ref><ref>Hill, Peter. The Dialect of Gorno Kalenik 1991, Columbus, OH</ref> in neighbouring ]. The Prilep-Bitola dialect, along with other peripheral west-central dialects, provides much of the basis for modern ].<ref>Makedonska gramatika by Krume Kepeski
	Language, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1951), pp. 180-187</ref>		Language, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1951), pp. 180-187</ref>

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The Prilep-Bitola dialect (Template:Lang-mk, Prilepsko-bitolski dijalekt) is a member of the central subgroup of the western group of dialects of the Macedonian language. This dialect is mainly spoken in the towns of Prilep and Bitola and in surrounding areas in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as by the Slavic-speaking minority population in and around Florina (Lerin) in neighbouring Greek Macedonia. The Prilep-Bitola dialect, along with other peripheral west-central dialects, provides much of the basis for modern Standard Macedonian.

Phonological characteristics

The phonological characteristics of the Prilep-Bitola dialect which also can also be found in the other peripheral dialects are:

antepenultimate word stress (see Macedonian phonology)
the yat has reflexed into
absence of the group in third-person singular verbs (e.g. можи and биди versus the standard може and биде)
absence of the intervocalic in the plural forms of monosyllabic nouns (e.g. лебо(в)и, дождо(в)и, etc.)

Morphological characteristics

three definite articles pertaining to the position of the object (see Macedonian grammar)
the third-person personal pronouns: тој, таа, тоа, тие (he, she, it, they)
imperfective verbs are typically derived from perfective verbs by means of the suffix –ва (e.g. зборва and боледва)
use of the oblique form for proper names

Typical Words

Чупе – girl
Пре(ѓ)е, пре(ѓ)еска – recently, lately
Модистра – seamstress

Typical words from the Lerin sub-dialect

Пл'усна - fire a rifle
Капнат - thirsty
Гренди - timber

Notes

author missing. Леринскиот говор. Македонски jазик, 1983, ХХХIV, стр. 23-49.
Hill, Peter. The Dialect of Gorno Kalenik 1991, Columbus, OH
Makedonska gramatika by Krume Kepeski Language, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1951), pp. 180-187
Граматика на македонскиот литературен јазик, Блаже Конески, Култура, Скопје 1967, стр.68
Friedman, Victor (1998), Macedonian: Comparative Grammar, Slavic and East European Language Research Center (SEELRC): p. 22

External Links

Dialectial dictionary of the Macedonian language dialect spoken in Oshchima (Trigonon), Greece

Dialects of Macedonian

Western

Central	Prilep-Bitola Kičevo-Poreče Skopje-Veles
Western and northwestern	Gostivar (Upper Polog) Debar Drimkol-Golo Brdo Galičnik (Small Reka) Reka Vevčani-Radožda Struga Ohrid Upper Prespa Lower Prespa

Northern

Eastern	Kumanovo Kratovo Kriva Palanka Ovče Pole
Western	Skopska Crna Gora Tetovo (Lower Polog) Gora

Southeastern

Eastern	Štip-Kočani Strumica Tikveš-Mariovo Maleševo-Pirin
Southeastern	Solun-Voden Ser-Drama-Lagadin-Nevrokop Nestram-Kostenar Kostur Korča

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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