October 9, 2025Open Access

Macedonian Dialect Atlas (From the Repository of the Card Index: Lexical Materials)

КККiril КirilovNew Bulgarian University KUKaterina UshevaBulgarian Academy of Sciences

Key Points

Sparse data from Southwestern Bulgaria limits comprehensive understanding of dialectal variations.
Only one of the maps shows three filled-in settlements, with the majority showing none or two.
Macedonian dialect lexemes reflect continuity of linguistic traits across the Bulgarian border.
The analysis emphasizes thematic diversity in vocabulary, including family names and culinary terms.

Abstract

The Macedonian Dialect Atlas (MASA, 2024) comprises 50 maps covering thematically diverse vocabulary, including animal names, family names, and culinary lexis. Analysis of the linguistic material reveals that Macedonian linguists incorporated settlements from Bulgaria into their network; however, among the cited maps, only one comprises three filled-in settlements, several maps show two, and some show none. Consequently, the data from settlements in Southwestern Bulgaria is sparse. While some of the mapped names coincide with those in the network of today’s Republic of North Macedonia, they also correspond to names from the Bulgarian network, as documented in the volumes of OLA, BDA, and related sources. The so-called ‘Macedonian’ lexemes thus attest to the natural continuity of isolexes and areals extending west of the Bulgarian state border within the Bulgarian linguistic territory.

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Кirilov et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e70dab90569dd607ee5f63 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.47810/bl.72.25.03.11

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