{{Short description|Dialect of Macedonian}} right|thumb|300px|The Debar dialect on the map of the Macedonian dialects
The '''Debar dialect''' ({{langx|mk|Дебарски дијалект}}, ''Debarski dijalekt'') is a member of the subgroup of the western and north-western dialects of the western group of dialects of Macedonian.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vidoeski |first=Božo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twR-AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Debar%20dialect%22%20-wikipedia |title=Dialects of Macedonian |date=2005 |publisher=Slavica |isbn=978-0-89357-315-7 |pages=24–25 |language=en}}</ref> The dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Debar and the surrounding areas in North Macedonia.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Конески |first1=Блаже |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srhiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Debar%20dialect%22%20-wikipedia |title=A Historical Phonology of the Macedonian Language |last2=Видоески |first2=Божо |date=1983 |publisher=C. Winter, Universitätsverlag |isbn=978-3-533-03120-8 |pages=121–123 |language=en}}</ref> The Debar dialect is closed with the Reka dialect and the dialect of Galicnik. In the dialect are used a lot of archaic words.
==Phonological characteristics==
*fixed accent */d͡ʒ/ deaffricated and merged with /ʒ/ *the Proto-Slavic ''*ǫ'' has denasalized to [o] (*rǫka → рока) *use of ''o'' instead of the soft form (крв > корв) *absence of the intervocalic {{IPA|[v]}} in the plural forms of monosyllabic nouns (e.g. лебо(в)и, дождо(в)и, etc.)
==Morphological characteristics==
*use of ''ќа'' instead of ''ќе'' *three definite articles pertaining to the position of the object (see Macedonian grammar) *use of the suffix ''-т'' for third person singular
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Macedonian dialects}}
Category:Macedonian-language dialects Category:Debar Municipality