Greeks

Stoilovo 1

24 (a) pɤ̀rvu segà še ti kàž’e vɤ̀rzvəhme se gɤrkìni
I’ll tell you first that we tied [our head coverings] [like] Greek women.

25 (a) vɤ̀rzvəme se gərkìne səs mr’ɛ̀ži zelè̝ni č’èrni i d’ulbène bùlu
We “tie up” like Greek women, with green and black netting, headscarves, and a veil –

Vasiljovo 1

3 (a) è kogàto stanɛ̀ vojnɛ̀ta tò beše dvanàeseta godìna
When the war – when the war began. That was in [19]12.

4 (a) bìa sa bɤ̀lgarete i sṛ̀bete i gṛ̀cite bìa tùrcite
The Bulgarians and the Serbs and the Greeks fought – they defeated the Turks

5 (a) na tùrskata grànica tàm gi bìa è tə sə vudì vojnɛ̀ta
on the Turkish border, that’s where they beat them. Eh – that was the war.

Vasiljovo 2

10 (b) ta sa zas’è̝lia pa t’èa ot tàm pò nagòre pak gṛ̀cite
Then they settled there, and further on up are Greeks.

11 (b) pa gṛ̀cko pl’ème ìma i i takòva klisùrsko pl’ème
A Greek tribe. And then there’s also a tribe from the Klisura region.

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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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