Skopje-Veles dialect
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The location of the Skopje-Veles dialect among the others Macedonian dialects

The Skopje-Veles dialect (Macedonian: Скопско-велешки дијалект, Skopsko-veleški dijalekt) is a member of the central subgroup of the Western group of dialects of the Macedonian language. The dialect is spoken by a larger group of people in the cities Skopje and Veles and in the surrounding villages: Volkovo, Katlanovo, Petrovec and Čaška among others. This dialect is of historical importance of the Macedonian language as is considered by many to be a prestige dialect.^{citation needed} On August, 2, 1945, the Skopje-Veles dialect, together with the other dialects of the central group was officially regulated as a basis of the standard Macedonian language. Many Macedonian writers and linguists were writing on this dialect and considered it to be the standard Macedonian language.{{Fact|Date-July 2008} One of them was Krste Petkov Misirkov and in his book For Macedonian affairs wrote that this dialect should be the standard Macedonian language. He has been writing on Skopje-Veles dialect and on Prilep-Bitola dialect¹

Phonological characteristics

• use of /v/ instead of the archaic /h/: страх / strah > 'страв / strav (fear);
• emphasis on the antepenultimate syllable;
• use of the hard L ;
• use of intervocalic /v/: човек / čovek (man);
• use of the hard sound Њ/ nj (in the other dialects of the central group this sound is soft);
• use of the letter Ќ and Ѓ (in the others dialects of the central group the cluster јќ and јѓ is found): куќа / kuḱa - кујќа / kujḱa (house).

Morphological characteristics

• use of the preposition VO or V;
• use of the suffix -ule: дете / dete - детуле / detule (child);
• use of the grammatical construction have + past participle: имам работено/ imam raboteno (I have worked);
• use of three articles.

Examples of the Skopje-Veles dialect

The poem "A voice from Macedonia" by Kole Nedelkovski is probably one of the most famous texts written in the Skopje-Veles dialect.

O, trajte, trajte, tirani nedni!

Dosta se tija lagi i zloba -

pakosten glas od ustite gadni

nad mojot narod u sekoja doba.

Ta ete veḱe vekovi celi

piska i stenka od volci gosti -

za brata vijat koj da go deri,

za da mu gloda suvite koski.

Pa neka sega sam da si reši

so svoja volja, sudba i seva,

v životot ednaš sam da se teši,

d' izdigne slavno svoj rod bez vreva.

Ta Šar i Pirin družno da viknat

rodnata pesna v nebesa temni

i burniot Egej — navek da pliska

teškiot glas na novite himni.

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