The Lower Sava Valley dialect (''posavsko narečje'', ''posavščina'') is a
Slovene dialect in the
Styrian dialect group, bordering on the
Lower Carniolan dialect group. It is spoken in the
Sava
The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally t ...
Valley from
Litija
Litija (; german: Littai''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 90, 92–93.) is a town in the Litija Basin in central Slovenia. It is the s ...
to
Brežice and along the lower course of the
Savinja
The Savinja () is a river in northeast Slovenia which flows mostly in the Upper and Lower Savinja Valley ( sl, Zgornja in Spodnja Savinjska dolina) and through the cities of Celje and Laško. The Savinja is the main river of the Savinja Alps ...
River. It is divided into three subdialects: the
Zagorje-Trbovlje subdialect,
Laško subdialect, and
Sevnica-Krško subdialect.
[Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, pp. 197.]
Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Lower Sava Valley dialect predominantly shares features with the
Lower Carniolan dialects but does not have
pitch accent
A pitch-accent language, when spoken, has word accents in which one syllable in a word or morpheme is more prominent than the others, but the accentuated syllable is indicated by a contrasting pitch ( linguistic tone) rather than by loudness ...
.
Its transitional nature is shown by its older Lower Carniolan vocalic features overlaid by more recent Styrian features.
References
Slovene dialects in Styria (Slovenia)
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