Old Church Slavonic also shares the following phonetic features only with Bulgarian: Near-open articulation *æ / *jæ of the Yat vowel (ě); still preserved in the Bulgarian dialects of the Rhodope mountains, the Razlog dialect, the Shumen dialect and partially preserved as *ja (ʲa) across Yakavian Eastern Bulgarian and as reflexes of Proto-Slavic *ťʲ (< *tj and *gt, *kt) and *ďʲ (< *dj).
old church slavonic also shares the following phonetic features only with bulgarian near-open articulation *æ / *jæ of the yat vowel (ě); still preserved in the bulgarian dialects of the rhodope mountains the razlog dialect the shumen dialect and partially preserved as *ja (ʲa) across yakavian eastern bulgarian and as reflexes of proto-slavic *ťʲ (< *tj and *gt *kt) and *ďʲ (< *dj)