Vevčani-Radožda dialect

The location of the Vevčani-Radožda dialect among the others Macedonian dialects

	The Lazy Bride Excerpt from a folk story told by a woman from Vevčani in the Vevčani-Radožda dialect Traditions for Lazarus Saturday in Vevčani Excerpt old woman from Vevčani about the village traditions around Lazarus Saturday told in the Vevčani-Radožda dialect
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The Vevčani-Radožda dialect (Macedonian: Вевчанско-радошки дијалект, Vevčansko-radoški dijalekt) is a member of the western and north western subgroup of the western group of dialects of the Macedonian language.^[1] Because of the old and rich tradition that this region has and because of the Vevčani Carnival, many old words are present in everyday communication of the people. The Vevčani-Radοža dialect is the smallest dialect among the others dialects of the Macedonian language.

The dialect is spoken in the villages of Radožda, Vevčani, Mali Vlaj in the Republic of Macedonia and the village of Lin in Albania. The dialect is close with the Struga, Korča, and Ohrid dialects.

Phonological characteristic

• change of word-initial /tsv/ (цв-) to /tsu/ (цу): цвет → цут / cvet → cut ('flower')
• loss of intervocalic /v/ (в): половина → полојна / polovina → polojna ('a half')
• stress falls on the third syllable from the end of the word.^[2]
• use of the intervocalic o instead of a

Morphological characteristic

• use of the suffix -уле / -ule: дете → детуле / dete → detule ('kid');
• use of the preposition в / во ('in'): во вода, в град / vo voda, v grad ('in water', 'in city');
• use of the suffix -Т: тој пишит / toj pišit ('he writes');
• frequent use of the perfect construction е дојден, беше дојден / e dojden, beše dojden ('is come', 'was come' ).^[3]
• changing of the (ќ) /kj/ to a (шт) /št/ : гаќи /gakji/ → гашти /gašti/

Other specific characteristics

• change of the vocal R and vocal L;
• often use of the consonant groups шт (št) and жд (žd)
• using vocal groups such as: -ea-, -oa- .

Typical Words

• Пипун / pipun as opposed to диња/dinja - 'rockmelon'
• Риза / riza as opposed to крпа/krpa - 'towel'
• Карпуз /karpuz as opposed to лубеница/lubenica - 'watermelon'
• Момиче /momiče as opposed to Мома/moma - 'girl'
• Иљачи/Iljači as opposed to Лекови/Lekovi - 'medicines'
• Гашти/Gašti as opposed to Гаќи/Gaķi - underwear
• Кнок/Knok as opposed to Слаб/Slab - thin/skinny
• Јаболце/Jabolce as opposed to Капаче/Kapače - knee-cap
• Фшинат/Fšinat as opposed to Шинат/Šinat - to sprain

References

Dialects of Macedonian
Western	Central Prilep-Bitola Kičevo-Poreče Skopje-Veles Western and northwestern Upper Polog Debar Drimkol-Golo Brdo Galičnik Reka Vevčani-Radožda Struga Ohrid Upper Prespa Lower Prespa
Northern	Eastern Kumanovo2 Kratovo2 Kriva Palanka2 Ovče Pole Western Skopska Crna Gora Lower Polog Gora2
Southeastern	Eastern Štip - Kočani Strumica Tikveš-Mariovo Maleševo-Pirin1 Southeastern Solun-Voden1 Ser-Drama-Lagadin-Nevrokop1 Nestram-Kostenar Kostur Korča
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.

See also

• The Radožda-Vevčani Dialect of Macedonian: Structure, Texts, Lexicon