The Debar dialect (Macedonian: Дебарски дијалект, Debarski dijalekt) is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian.[1] The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia.[2] 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 denasalized to [o] (*rǫka → рока)
use of o instead of the soft form (крв > корв)
absence of the intervocalic [v] in the plural forms of monosyllabic nouns (e.g. лебо(в)и, дождо(в)и, etc.)
1 Also considered a dialect of Bulgarian. 2 Considered to be a part of the transitional Torlak dialect and as a subdialect of Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian.