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THE VLACH LANGUAGE GoPESH-MoLOViSHTE.

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—Here the peculiarities are

the use of g' for y, g'ipiu for yipiu, g'inii for yinu, ag'ine for ayine, and even in Greek words g'atni for yatni doctor, g'ilie glass for yilie of zh for dzh, e.g. zhone for dzJione, zhoku for dzhoku, ;

azhungu of ^ for

(?^,

for adzhimgu, etc.

e.g.

zud for

tf^wa,

avzdm

for avdzdm, vizin

for vidzui, etc.

The

article in

the masculine and neuter

the former occurs after two consonants,

both id and

is

/ff

;

e.g.

lukrul, preftul, lemnul, but barbatlu, kallu, Greklu, etc.

Okhridha-Lunka.

— Here the main features are

:

e after hissing sounds and r, e.g. moashdle for moashele, matsdle for matsele, etc. an extra vowel is often inserted between two consonants, especially when one of them is r or /, e.g. kaluguru for kalugru, hiktiru for lukru, kdsenu for ksenu, garambo for

d for

gambro,

etc.

T/jg Centre

Neveska and Klisura. pronunciation begins. nd

for

fit,

—Here

Greek influence on the

Thus we have

:

alandd for alantd, munde for mimte

;

and thus a confusion arises between ningd near and ninkd again for mp, skumbu for sktimpu, bade for /^a^^, imblinU for

Tig for

nk, ingrunare for inkrunare, in gasd for in kasd,

;

mb

m

m

In the present indicative in the verbs of the third conjugation the accent in the first and second persons plural falls

not on the final syllable as elsewhere, but on the pen-

ultimate, e.g. fdtsim, dutsim, frdndzim, spunim, depunim, etc.

Here too one

first

hears as one goes from north to south

eu or io for mine.

But of course since this district is on the border line between the two big regions both northern and southern forms can be used, for instance both ak'ikdsesku

and duk'esku are

in use.


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