Оn the Lexis of the Bulgarian Catholics in Belene

The article offers an analysis of selected vocabulary from the dialect of the Bulgarian Catholics living in the region of Belene, placing the study in a wider dialectal con-text. The author argues for the need to publish a dictionary of this dialect, stressing its similarity to the dialect of the Banat Bulgarians. She illustrates this claim with examples from several lexical groups: Christianity, animals, life, nature, diseases, the human body.