childhood

Bosnek 1

2 (a) za dètstvoto li tr’àva da ti kàžem dètstvoto
Childhood? I should tell you [about] my childhood?

4 (a) a sɤm go karàla mnògo dobrè mnògo bème siromàsi
It was very good. We were very poor,

Malevo/Asg 1

56 (a) i tàm si z nəs’àdəhme kətu pò màl’ki
We sat at those when we were smaller,

57 (a) nìe kətu̥ stànəhme v’èč’e ž’èneni nə màsi jəd’èm’ə
but when we grew up and married, we ate at [normal] tables.

58 (a) ə pək pò rànu nə pərəlìi əd’àhme i u bəštà mi
But earlier on we ate at the “paraliya” tables. At my father’s house

59 (a) bəhme mnògu xòrə tàm tàm ìməhə t’è s’èdem decà
there were a lot of us. They had seven children there,

60 (a) sìčkite kət nəs’ʌ̀dneme nə pərəl’ʌ̀tə
and all of us sat at the “paraliya” tables,

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Recommended Model for Citations

Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)
Babjak 1: 13-15. In: Bulgarian Dialectology as Living Tradition [2016] (http://www.bulgariandialectology.org, visited on 1 March 2016)

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