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broken cloudsOne of the most distinctive dialects in Bulgaria - with interesting words, a special intonation and that famous "shch" that every guest hears, but few understand. Get to know it, leaf through the dictionary and test your knowledge in the fun quiz.
The people of Banska Bystrica speak a wonderful modern Bulgarian, but among themselves they like to preserve the old dialect. Here are a few features by which you will recognize it immediately.
The most recognizable feature. Where in the literary language there is a "sh", in Bansko "shh" is heard.
кашча (house) · шчерка (daughter) · башча (yard, garden) нешчо (something)
One of the rarest features in Bulgarian dialects is that many words carry two, and sometimes three, accents. This is where the characteristic singsong intonation of Banskaia comes from.
Masculine nouns in the plural are often shortened - instead of "-s", they end in just "-e".
пастире (instead of shepherds)
The Bansko dialect is transitional — it lies in the Yat isoglossic belt and combines features of the eastern (Gotsedelchevsko, Rhodopes) and western (Blagoevgrad, Samokov) dialects, with ancient Slavic roots and borrowings from Turkish and Greek.
Words and expressions you will hear on the streets of Bansko. Type a word to filter.
„"Are you crying, child?""
„"Come and have lunch!""
„"How are you kid?""
Classic "shch" instead of "sh".
Again "shch" instead of "sh".
„"Come out into the garden.""
„"Something is driving me crazy...""
„"Give me some more.""
Borrowed from Turkish. "I walked the path of Kodja."„
„"The house is next to the bar.""
One of the words that tourists have the hardest time guessing.
Indispensable for the festive table at the time.
Something between a terrace and a vestibule, under a roof.
Masculine, plural of "-e" instead of "-ites".
The pride of Bansko cuisine — expensive and… quite salty.
This is what the people of Banska Bystrica call a guest from outside.
8 questions. Choose what each word means and see at the end if you are a tourist... or a true Banska Bystrica resident.
Sources: Radoslav Tsonev, "The Speech of the Town of Bansko" (University Press "Neofit Rilski", 2008); recordings and observations of local speakers. The dictionary is a starting one - it will be supplemented and enriched.
„"Banski starets" is a traditional dried delicacy - expensive and heavily salted. In the past, it was believed that whoever ate it often was a wealthy person. Hence the old Bansko joke:
Banska Bystrica is visiting Razlog and wants to brag about eating an old man without saying it outright:
— Нешчо ме кара на вода…
They bring him a glass of water, but he says again: — Нешчо па ме кара на вода.
— Well оти, Dzhore? — Ядош старец!
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