The Strumica (Macedonian: Струмички дијалект, Strumicki dijalekt) is a dialect of Macedonian. It is member of the center subgroup of the eastern group of the Macedonian dialects. This dialect is mainly spoken in the southeastern part of Macedonia, respectively in Strumica and in the surrounding areas. It has maintained vestiges of the Maleševo-Pirin dialect in certain terms of male kinship.[1] The Strumica dialect has a small amount of differential object marking in the vernacular of some speakers who mark topical animate objects, compared to the Debar dialect, where the marking is common in the Macedonian Muslim population.[2] The main characteristic is continuing the vowel.[clarification needed]
1 Also considered a dialect of Bulgarian. 2 Considered to be a part of the transitional Torlak dialect and as a subdialect of Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian.
