Styrian Music Association
Styrian may refer to: * Adjective for Styria * Styrian dialect group See also * Styria (other) Styria is a federal state of Austria. Styria may also refer to: * Upper Styria, which can refer either to the entire state of Styria or to the northern part of it * Styria (Slovenia), an informal province in Slovenia * Duchy of Styria, a former sta ...

Styria
Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and clockwise, from the southwest, by the other Austrian states of Carinthia, Salzburg (federal state), Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Burgenland. The state's capital is Graz, the second largest city in Austria after only Vienna. Name The March of Styria derived its name from the original seat of its ruling Otakars, Otakar dynasty: Steyr, in today's Upper Austria, which in turn derives its name from the namesake river of Steyr, stemming from the Celtic Stiria. In the native German the area is still called "Steiermark", while in English the Latin name "Styria" is used. Until the late 19th century however, the German name "Steyer", a slightly modernized spelling of Steyr, was also common. The ancient link between the city of Steyr and S ...
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Styrian Dialect Group
The Styrian dialect group (''štajerska narečna skupina'', ''štajerščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU, p. 52.) is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The Lower Carniolan dialects are spoken in central and eastern Slovenian Styria and in the Lower Sava Valley and Central Sava Valley. Phonological and morphological characteristics Among other features, this group is characterized by loss of pitch accent A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (music), pitch (tone (linguistics), linguistic tone) rather than by vol ..., tonemically high and lengthened accented syllables, lengthening of accented short syllables, and frequent development of ''a'' > ''ɔ'', and ''u'' > ''ü'' in the eastern part of the territory. Individual dialects and subdialects * Central Savinja dialect ...
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