THE ETHNOLOGICAL - LINGUISTIC PROGRAM IN THE MACEDONIAN CENTER OF "MINIATURE DIALECTAL ATLAS OF THE BALKAN LANGUAGES "

Abstract

The paper contains the results of the field research done in 1999 in the Republic of Macedonia, according to the working program for creating the "Small dialectological atlas of Balkan languages" of the Institute for Slavistics and Balkanistics that exists in the frames of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The research shows that the ethnolinguistics material collected from these two points (the village of Teovo and the village of Peshtani) in Macedonia has: 1. A lot of mutual characteristics with many Macedonian, but as well Balkan and Slav cultural linguistic traditions in general 2. Has features that could be called "Macedonian", since in other areas of South Slav populated regions they can not be traced 3. Has features of uniqueness, like the examined village of Peshtani.