Prizren–Timok dialect
The Prizren–Timok dialect (Serbo-Croatian: призренско–тимочки дијалект / prizrensko–timočki dijalekt) is the name given by Serbian linguists to classify transitional Torlakian dialects spoken in Eastern and South Serbia and Kosovo — an area spanning from Prizren in the south to the Timok River in the north — as sub-dialects of Old-Shtokavian. Its eastern border, starting from Zaječar, roughly forms the border with Bulgaria.
Sub-dialects
[edit]- Prizren–South Morava [sr] (призренско–јужноморавски / prizrensko–južnomoravski)
- Svrljig–Zaplanje [sr] (сврљишко–заплањски / svrljiško–zaplanjski)
- Timok–Lužnica [sr] (тимочко–лужнички / timočko–lužnički)
- Pirot (пиротски / pirotski)
- Crna Trava (црнотравски / crnotravski)
- Lužnica (лужнички / lužnički)
References
[edit]- ^ Ethnologia Balkanica. Vol. 12. Lit Verlag. 2008. p. 157.
The Vranje speech belongs to the Prizren-South Morava type in the Prizren-Timok dialect zone (Ivic 1985: 115-118)
Further reading
[edit]- Динић, Јакша. Тимочки дијалекатски речник. Vol. 4. Ин-т за српски језик САНУ, 2008.