Prizren–Timok dialect

The Prizren–Timok dialect (Serbo-Croatian: Призренско–тимочки дијалекат / Prizrensko–timočki dijalekat) 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.

Map of Shtokavian sub-dialects, according to Pavle Ivić (1988 book). The Prizren-Timok dialects are shown in three colours in the southeastern corner.

Sub-dialects
  • Prizren–South Morava (Призренско–јужноморавски / Prizrensko–južnomoravski)
    • Vranje (Врањански / Vranjanski)[1]
    • Gora (Горански / Goranski)
  • Svrljig–Zaplanje (Сврљишко–заплањски / Svrljiško–zaplanjski)
  • Timok–Lužnica (Тимочко–лужнички / Timočko–lužnički)
    • Pirot (Пиротски / Pirotski)
    • Crna Trava (Црнотравски / Crnotravski)
    • Lužnica (Лижнички / Lužnički)

References
  1. 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
  • Динић, Јакша. Тимочки дијалекатски речник. Vol. 4. Ин-т за српски језик САНУ, 2008.
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