Upper Prespa dialect

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title: "Upper Prespa dialect" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["dialects-of-the-macedonian-language", "resen-municipality"] description: "Dialect of Macedonian" topic_path: "general/dialects-of-the-macedonian-language" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Prespa_dialect" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Dialect of Macedonian ::

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Macedonian_Slavic_dialects.png" caption="The location of the Upper Prespa dialect among the others Macedonian dialects"] ::

The Upper Prespa dialect () is a member of the western subgroup of the western group of dialects of Macedonian. The dialect is spoken in the town of Resen and surrounding areas. The Upper Prespa dialect is very similar to the Lower Prespa dialect and the Ohrid dialect.

Morphological characteristics

• use of the suffix -ој instead of -ови in plurals
• use of all three definite articles

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