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Repljana 1

5 (a) ta da se napasè òn kìmnu vàrdi se od mùe
to graze, and he gave a shake to ward off the flies.

54 (a) ama tegàj štò tekà od mùe li se zàvardi
[I don’t know] what happened this time, maybe he tried to ward off flies?

56 (VZh) da ne sɤ̀ bilì ot tìja
Maybe it was some of these …

58 (VZh) štṛk štṛklìci li kvì sa tìe mùi ə tìja mùje
… gad- gadflies? What kind of flies are those? These flies [that] –

59 (a) e nò od mùjete hà no tèj tèj
Well yes, it was flies, right. Those – the ones

60 (a) štò se štṛ̀kl’u volòvete štò
that sting oxen and make them run about, that –

62 (a) štò àpu pa tegàj òn me nè e
that bite them. And so he didn’t –

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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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