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Prilep-Bitola dialect
Прилепско-битолски дијалект Prilepsko-bitolski dijalekt
Native to	Republic of Macedonia, Greece
Region	Bitola, Prilep, Florina
Native speakers	170,000—230,000
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Eastern South Slavic Macedonian language Prilep-Bitola dialect
Writing system	Cyrillic (Macedonian variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
The location of the Prilep-Bitola dialect among the others Macedonian dialects.

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

1. As the precise number of speakers is unknown, this figure has been calculated by adding the total populations of the Bitola and Prilep municipalities (approx. 170,000) and then further adding the population of the Florina prefecture (making it approx. 230,000).
2. author missing. Леринскиот говор. Македонски jазик, 1983, ХХХIV, стр. 23-49.
3. Hill, Peter. The Dialect of Gorno Kalenik 1991, Columbus, OH
4. Makedonska gramatika by Krume Kepeski Language, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1951), pp. 180-187
5. Граматика на македонскиот литературен јазик, Блаже Конески, Култура, Скопје 1967, стр.68
6. 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

v t e 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.

• Dialects of the Macedonian language
• Macedonian language