Borrowings from the languages of Balkan countries with the status of dialectal and argot lexemes (Based on materials from the secret jargon of masons in the region of Gotse Delchev)

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Dialectal words functioning in the argot should by all means be borrowed from regions remote in distance since they have to be incomprehensible to the population in the area where the profession or craft is exercised. The article is dedicated to the secret jargon of masons in the Rhodope mountains known under the name meshtruganski dialect. Loan words from Albanian used in the dialects of western Macedonia are analysed and their development as argot in the sociolect of wandering masons has been followed. Dialectal words with a wide area of distribution on Bulgarian territory have been studied (dictionaries define them as “vernacular”). They have acquired the status of argot words as a result of semantic transformations in the sociolect and they also function as parts of phraseologisms.

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sociolect, secret jargon of masons, meshtruganski dialect, argot, dialectal form, borrowings from the languages of Balkan countries, Albanian loan word, a word from argot, syllabic code, copied semantic spectrum

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