Kriva Palanka
Кривопаланечки дијалект Krivopalanečki dijalekt
Native to	North Macedonia
Region	Kriva Palanka
Native speakers	c. 20,000 (2002)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Eastern South Slavic Macedonian Kriva Palanka
Writing system	Cyrillic (Macedonian alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	kriv1234
IETF	mk-u-sd-mk702
Location of the Kriva Palanka dialect among other Macedonian dialects

The Kriva Palanka dialect (Macedonian: Кривопаланечки дијалект, Krivopalanečki dijalekt) is a member of the eastern subgroup of the northern group of dialects of Macedonian. This dialect is mainly spoken in the city of Kriva Palanka and surrounding villages.

Phonological characteristics

• use of A instead of E: трева / treva > трава / trava;
• use of the letter U instead of the letter A: рака / raka > рука / ruka (hand), пат / pat > пут / put (road);

Morphological characteristics

• imperfective verbs are typically derived from perfective verbs by means of the suffix –ue (e.g. зборуе and текнуе)
• use of the preposition U (in).

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