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Vladimirovo 3

10 (a) mɤžète si go kòj si ìma
The men [did] – the ones who have them.

11 (VZh) à nàči i mɤžète pletɤ̀t
Ah, so men do weaving too!

14 (a) mɤžète pràvea sɤs òdea sɤs serkmè a nìe ženìte pràveme
The men made [them] and went off with the cast nets, while we women made –

15 (a) sɤs ə ə tavà koto dèka ga kazà:me prikazvà:me za gṛ̀stite
well, this – as we spoke of – we talked about hemp.

Vŭrbina 3

36 (a) nàšte mɤ̀ž’uve sə etàm ràbutili pək nij sme bilìli
Our husbands worked there, while we were [here]

37 (a) i ž’è̝ncki i mɤ̀ski i də ur’è̝mə i də sədɨ̀me
[doing] men’s and women’s [work]. We [would] do the plowing and planting,

Vŭrbina 4

109 (d) jədè̝m pìene ž’enìte vɤ̀tre mɤ̀skite vɤ̀nkə pu nəud’èlnu
we eat, there’s drinking – The women are inside and men outside, separately.

110 (d) e təkà beše səbòrə nàš sled devèti pòčnəne
That’s what our celebration was like. After socialism came (on 9.IX.1944) we began to have

111 (d) òpšti səbòr kòjtu bə zàednu fsìč’ki i səbòrə beše təkà
a general celebration, with everyone (men and women) together. And that’s how it was.

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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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