The Chepino dialect is a Bulgarian dialect of the Rhodopean group of the Rup dialects. Its range includes the northwestern Rhodopes, i.e. the towns of Velingrad, Rakitovo and Kostandovo and the villages of Dragichevo and Dorkovo. Its immediate neighbours are the Central Balkan dialect and the Ihtiman dialect to the north, the Babyak dialect to the west and south and the Hvoyna dialect to the east. The Chepino dialect is spoken by both Orthodox and Muslim Bulgarians in the region irrespective of religious affiliation.
The Chepinodialect is a Bulgarian dialect of the Rhodopean group of the Rup dialects. Its range includes the northwestern Rhodopes, i.e. the towns of...
neighbours are the Central Balkan dialect to the north, the Smolyan dialect to the south and the Rhodopean Chepinodialect to the west. Merger of Old Church...
Rhodopes and is thus sandwiched between the Chepinodialect on the east and northeast and the Razlog dialect to the south and west. It shares a number of...
Bulgarian dialects are the regional varieties of the Bulgarian language, a South Slavic language. Bulgarian dialectology dates to the 1830s and the pioneering...
and ordinary e (ɛ) in an unstressed syllable (as in the Rhodopean Chepinodialect): бæл/бæли vs. formal Bulgarian бял/бели (white) but деца as in Standard...
dialects. The Rhodopean dialects comprise the Smolyan, Hvoyna, Paulician and Chepinodialect, whereas the Zlatograd dialect is transitional between the...
Slavic languages), it is a member of the Balkan sprachbund and South Slavic dialect continuum of the Indo-European language family. The two languages have...
Smolyan, Chepino, Hvoyna and Zlatograd subdialects) and Western Rup (especially the Babyak and Gotse Delchev sub-dialects) dialects. The Smolyan dialect is...
climate conditions in the area. Tsvetino is considered an old village in the Chepino Valley, as it was first originated as a pastoral settlement. The people...
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