TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF A NEWLY-FORMED BULGARIAN SETTLER DIALECT OF MIXED TYPE: PHONETIC, MORPHOLOGICAL, AND LEXICAL FEATURES (PART TWO)

The article presents a comprehensive study of a specific dialectal system – the Kamchik dialect – aiming to identify its typical features and the peculiarities of their functioning. The study examines the behavior of the phonemes /*ě/, /х/, and /в/. Based on the analysed texts, the dialect demonstrates a high degree of preservation of [х] in various positions – wordinitial, medial, and final – alongside minimal losses of [х] and hypercorrective changes linked to consonantal variability. The stabilisation of the phoneme /х/ in the Kamchik dialect is facilitated by its role in the formbuilding morphemes of aorist and imperfect verbs, as well as by influence from other Slavic languages. In contrast, the phoneme /в/ exhibits greater dynamism, with notable cases where the loss of etymological [в] is accompanied by the emergence of non-etymological, secondary [в]. The analysis of the pronoun system of the Kamchik dialect demonstrates its most significant features and the diversity of phonetic and phonomorphological variants characteristic of Bulgarian dialectal types that contribute to this microsystem. For the formation of the future tense, the Kamchik dialect employs variable forms of the future particle. The most frequent pattern involves the formative ша (ш), whereas the Thracian variant жа is rarely used, and the ще variant is gradually falling out of use. A comparison of lexical maps from the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas of Outer Territories (BDAOТ) and the Atlas of Bulgarian Dialects (ABG) indicates that the Kamchik dialect shares more lexical features with the dialects of the Maritsa and Sakar regions in the metropole. This accounts for the presence of lexical doublets in the analysed dialect. Overall, the Kamchik dialect has preserved a greater number of original Bulgarian lexemes compared to other Bessarabian Bulgarian dialects, while the highest number of borrowings from Ukrainian and Russian is observed in the lexico-semantic domain of “clothing”.