The article presents the phonological description of the local dialect of Dovje (SLA T195) in Upper Carniola (Gorenjska), compared with some other neighbouring local dialects. The article contains an inventory of phonemes and prosodemes of this Gorenjsko dialect, describes their distribution and explains their origin. The vowel system of Dovje local dialect consists of the following long stressed vowels: ˈiː, ˈẹː, ˈeː, ˈaː, ˈoː, ˈọː, ˈuː, ˈəːr, but also ˈeːj (( *long jat, for example pléːjša ‘pleša’) and ˈoːu (( *ȏ, for example nòːus ‘nos’); short stressed and unstressed vowels are exposed to strong dialect reduction. The consonant system (of voiced and voiceless consonants) is similar to that of the standard language, except for the distribution of consonants. The voiceless consonants adapt to the following consonant, in word-final position only voiceless consonants can occur. Also typical for Gorenjsko dialect is the hardening of ĺ into l and ń into n. Various consonant changes also occur (assimilation, dissimilation, differentiation), e.g. the group -šč- has changed into -š-; palatalisation of velars k, g, x before i, e is still strong (npr. múːše ‘muhe’, drùːjga ‘drugega’). This phonological description has been prepared on the basis of dialect recordings from 1967 (the material has been collected with the questionnaire for Slovene Linguistic Atlas), complemented with recordings of dialect discourses from 2013.
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Dialectal words, recorded for SLA, shows relatively high degree of borrowings from languages and their dialects in contact. In morphological analysis, which is part of linguistic map commentary, a clear definition of the lexems origin is very important. So the article discusses the methodology of differentiation between the different strata of Romanisms in Slovene. Younger Romanisms in Slovene originate from one of the Young Romance idioms in contact with Slovene, i.e. Friulian, the Colonial Venetian dialects of Italian, and Standard Italian. Due to divergent phonetic developments a particular Romance lexeme shared by different Romance idioms can display an array of differing phonetic characteristics. These in turn provide the necessary criterion for the genetolinguistic differentiation of Younger Romanism in Slovene.
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This article presents the local dialect of the village of Jelšane (SLA T156), on the Slovenian-Croatian border in contact with Croatian Čakavko dialect. It is part of the Inner Carniolan dialect in the Littoral dialect group, which is originally a Lower Carniolan dialect overlaid with more recent Littoral features. The dialect’s phonetics and special morphological features are presented in greater detail and some examples of the lexicon typical of this border area are also given.
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