Aromanian dialects

[6] The Codex Dimonie, a collection of historical Aromanian-language religious texts translated from Greek, features several characteristics of the Grabovean dialect.

[8] According to studies done since the start of 20th century two major groups exist generically defined as northern and southern and they often overlap and intermingle in some smaller Aromanian-speaking regions.

[12] The Grãmostean dialect was identified in the area nowadays divided between Bulgaria, Greece, and North Macedonia, extending from Vardar to Rila, Pirin, and Rhodopes mountains.

It is also remarkable for the loss of diphthongs for example the breaking of /e/ and /o/ to /e̯a/ and /o̯a/ before /ə/ in the next syllable (Latin feta > Common Romanian *feată) is reverted to fetã in this dialect [18] and the reduction of the /mn/ consonant group to a long /m/.

[19] The southern dialect of Pindeans is heavily represented in the Pindus mountains area, with other speakers found in Thessaly - including Larissa - and in fewer numbers in Magnesia.