Разложки ли е банският диалект?
Is Bansko dialect a Razlog dialect?

Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to the problem of the place of speech and subspeech of people in Razlog region. In dialectology science this dialect is known as Razlog speech (in the broadest sense of the word, the name of the valley Razlòg) and Bansko-Razlog speech (in names of larger urban settlements in the region, Bansko and Razlog and to be highlighted the importance of Bansko speech as the most typical representative of Razlog dialect holding and preserving all typology dialectal features). In dialects of Bulgarian territory, it occupies an intermediate position between the linguistic East and West. The central location of the speech in the “ya” isogloss area determines the presence of various linguistic traits that to varying degrees associate it with neighbours to the East (in Gotse Delchev and Rhodope Mountains) and West (in Petrich, Blagoevgrad, Dupnitsa and Samokov) dialects. Opposing different types of dialectal features in the Bansko-Razlog speech provokes the emergence of complicated intra-system relationships in each of the language areas (phonetics, phonology, morphology, accentology etc.). Interim geographic location of the dialect explains the occurrence of interesting and varied changes in it, some of which have already been implemented; others are made even now, while others are yet to be developed. It is quite normal in the settlements of the region existing some minor language differences (upon which the dialect can be divided into northern and southern group sub-speeches), especially in the geographical area which is on the border between east and west dialect influence, such as Razlog. For Bulgarian linguists, however, this is one speech in its main features, which is still kept well, mostly because of the prestige that it has for the local bearers of the dialect.

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