The Archived Dialect Heritage and Its Modern Existence

The report presents the dialect archives in Department for Bulgarian Dialectology and Linguistic Geography of Institute Language "Prof. L. Andreychin" Academy Sciences, which include authentic lexis from different regions language territory, collected more than 70 years. process collecting material a card-index its use lexicographic linguo-geographical scientific works is described. ways enriching archived dialectal heritage with new lexical units modern means preservation popularization (digitalization, creation interactive dictionaries, maps, etc.) are indicated. importance study history literary traditional folk culture emphasized.