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Arčar 1

12 (a) ama òn i òn e ednì rumɤ̀nci
But he – he’s got these Romanians [there],

13 (a) jà ne mòe se razbèrem s n’ì
and I can’t understand them!

15 (a) ama rumɤ̀nci od rumɤ̀nija
But [these are] Romanians from Romania!

16 (KM) nè e vlàsi
Not “Vlachs” (Bulgarian Romanians).

17 (a) rumɤ̀nci si bè
No, they’re [proper] Romanians!

21 (a) ama tovà nalì trèba də go kontrolìrat onì
But they (the Romanians) are the ones that should be overseeing this.

25 (a) on s onovà momčènce ne govòri sàmo mène dìri
And he (the Romanian) won’t talk to that other boy, he only seeks me out.

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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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