• Broad e (''''
) for Old Church Slavonic yat in all positions and irrespective of the character of the following syllable : бл/бли
vs. formal Bulgarian бял/бели'' (white). However, the broad e has started giving way to , as in the formal language • Merger of
Old Church Slavonic big yus
ѫ, little yus
ѧ,
ь and
ъ into ъ ('
) in a stressed syllable and into a slightly reduced a' in an unstressed syllable:
къшта (as in formal Bulgarian – house),
кл҄ътва vs. formal Bulgarian
клетва (oath),
гл҄ъдам vs. formal Bulgarian
гледам (I look) • Reduction of stressed broad vowels '
and into their narrow counterparts and ', i.e. a development which is exactly opposite to the vowel reduction in the
Balkan dialects:
тибе vs. Standard Bulgarian
тебе (you),
жина vs. Standard Bulgarian
жена (woman) • Traces of Old Bulgarian ы ''''
: сын
vs. formal Bulgarian син'' (son). An archaic trait, as is considered to be the original pronunciation of Old Church Slavonic ꙑ • Individual cases of transition of stressed '
or into or ':
объчай vs. Standard Bulgarian
обичай (custom)[cf. Russian
обычай, Polish
obyczaj] • Transition of unstressed '
into ':
шъроко vs. Standard Bulgarian
широко (wide) • More consonant depalatalizations than in the rest of the Rup dialects and even Standard Bulgarian:
молъ vs. Standard Bulgarian
мол҄ъ (I ask) • Transition of х ('
) before a consonant and at the end of the word into the semivowel й ('):
тейно vs. Standard Bulgarian
техно (theirs) • Single definite article:
-ът, -та, -то, -те For other phonological and morphological characteristics typical for all Rup or Rhodopean dialects, cf.
Rup dialects. ==Sources==