Distinguishing features of Deleny village’s dialect in Bessarabia
Authors: KOLESNIK Valentina 
Published: April 2023

Background. The article deals with the basic phonetic morhological and lexical markers of Deleny village’s dialect which is one of the eastern Bulgarian dialects of the Balkanic type, examines rare lexemes and dialects of the village Deleny, Artsyz district of the Odessa region, which was founded in 1828–29 by settlers from village Devlet-Agach. Currently, the area from which the Delenians came from is located on the terri-tory of Turkey. Оn the phonetic level: yatya reflexes, stability of the consonants h and f, iotation vowel at the beginning of the words, reduction of unstressed vowels and others. The dialects are differentiated by the so-called cultural vocabulary, in particular, some names of mythical characters, ritual terminology, and some names of animals. Whereas ta-lasmi, samudivi, orisnitsi, irmenki are known to almost all carriers of migratory dia-lects, the lexeme karakondjol is recorded only in the southeastern dialects. Among the rare names, the lexeme ustrel should be noted, which we recorded in the Delenian dia-lect in the meaning of ‘strong wind’. Wedding terminology differentiates the dialects as well. Thus, the lexeme ustavani in the meaning of ‘matchmaking’ was not recorded in other Bessarabian Bulgarian dialects. One of the markers of the Delenian wedding ter-minology is the lexeme chepani, which means 'short dance'. Among the rare lexemes that have preserved the Old Bulgarian forms and meanings, the name of the snail in the Delenian dialect – oli-boli should be noted. The lexical markers of the Delenian dialect are also the name of the weasel – chervena mishka. Results. Our research shows that sub-ethnic elements of dialects are very stable. The dialects under study are not a conglomerate of different dialects, the so-called koine, but different dialects that differ mainly in phonetic and lexical features: the speakers of the dialect firmly retain the dialectal features of the mainland dialect. Key words: Bulgarian resettlement dialects, Delenian dialect, phonetic, morpho-logical, lexical and еthnocultural markers, sub-ethnic elements. Atlas of Bulgarian dialects in the USSR, 1958, 1. Introductory articles.Comments to the maps. Мoskow: АS USSR. (In Russian) Barbolova, Z. and Kolesnik, V., 1998. The dialects of the Bulgarians in the village of Kirnichki, Bessarabia.Bulgarian dialects in Ukraine. Odessa: Astroprint. (In Bulgarian) Barbolova, Z., Simeonova, M., Kitanova, M., Mutafchieva, N. and Legurska, P., 2018. Dictionary of the folk spiritual culture of the Bulgarians. Sofia: Science and Art. (In Bul-garian) Bulgarian etymological dictionary, 1971–2002, 1–6. Sofya: BAS. (In Bulgarian) Bernstein, S. B., 1978. Bulgarian-Russian Dictionary. Moscow: Russian Language. (In Bulgarian) Gerov, N., 1978. Dictionary of the Bulgarian language, 5. Sofia: Bulgarian writer. (In Bulgarian) Guyvanyuk, N. V., 2005. Dictionary of Bukovinian dialects. Ed. N., V. Guyvanyuk. Chernivtsi: Ruta. (In Ukrainian) Iliev, I., 2020. About the origin of the population in the villages of Loshchinovka and Suvorovo (Ukrainian Bessarabia). (In Bulgarian) Kalmakan, N., 2013. Greeks of Malyi Buyalyk: 200 years in Odessa region, 3. Odessa: Atlant. Kovachev, S., Totevski ,T. 1998. Dictionary of the Trojan dialect. Troyan: University Publishing House “St. Kliment Ohridski”. (In Bulgarian) Kolesnik, V., 2001. Evgenovka (Arsa). Onomastics. Dialect. Dictionary. Odessa: Her-mes. Slavic mythology, 2002. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moskow: International relations. (In Russian) Stoyanov, I. A., Stoyanova, E. P. and Dadiverin, I. G., 2002. The language of the Bulgarians of Ukraine in its oral and written form. Odessa: Optimum. (In Ukrainian) Stoyanov, I. and Chmyr O., 1988. Bulgarian-Ukrainian dictionary. Kyiv: Naukova dumka. (In Ukrainian) Hitov, H., 1979. Dictionary of the speech of the village. Radovene, Vratsa region. Bulgarian dialectology. Studies and materials, 9. Sofia: Publishing House of BAS. (In Bulgarian) Shabashov, A. V., 1996. The system of kinship of the Bulgarians of Ukraine: PhD’s abstract. Kyiv. (In Russian)