The dialect is spoken on small territory on the mountain Bistra in western part of North Macedonia.
The name of the dialect is derived by the biggest village in that area- Galičnik.
The dialect can be found in many historically important literary works for the Macedonian literature.
One of the most important is Ǵorǵija Puleski and his dictionary of three languages.
[1][2] Traditional song from Galičnik, that is sung on the holiday Vasilica: