Debar dialect
The Debar dialect is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of the Macedonian language. The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia. The Debar dialect is closed with the Reka dialect and the dialect of Galicnik. In the dialect are used a lot of archaic words.Phonological characteristics
- fixed accent
- /d͡ʒ/ deaffricated and merged with /ʒ/
- the Proto-Slavic *ǫ has denazalized to
- use of o instead of the soft form
- absence of the intervocalic in the plural forms of monosyllabic nouns и, дождо
Morphological characteristics
- use of ќа instead of ќе
- three definite articles pertaining to the position of the object
- use of the suffix -т for third person singular
