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 Styria ( sl, Štajerska), also Slovenian Styria (''Slovenska Štajerska'') or Lower Styria (''Spodnja Štajerska''; german: Untersteiermark), is a traditional region in northeastern Slovenia, comprising the southern third of the former Duchy of ...

and in the

Lower Sava Valley The Lower Sava Valley ( sl, Posavje, also ''Spodnje Posavje'' and ''Posavska regija''Ferenc, Tone. 1995. "Posavje". ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol 9. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, pp. 155–156.) is a region in southeastern Slovenia on the border ...

and

Central Sava Valley The Central Sava Valley ( sl, Zasavje) is a valley in the Sava Hills and a geographic region along the Sava in central Slovenia, now constituting the Central Sava Statistical Region. The region consists of three municipalities: Zagorje ob Savi ...

Phonological and morphological characteristics

Among other features, this group is characterized by loss of

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 ...

, 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 (''srednjesavinjsko narečje'', ''srednja savinjščina'') * Upper Savinja dialect (''zgornjesavinjsko narečje'', ''zgornja savinjščina'') **

Solčava subdialect The Solčava subdialect (''solčavski govor'') is a Slovene subdialect in the Styrian dialect group. It is a subdialect of the Upper Savinja dialect spoken around Solčava and the Logar Valley. It is the westernmost of the (sub)dialects in the ...

(''solčavski govor'') *

Central Styrian dialect The Central Styrian dialect (''srednještajersko narečje'',Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 12, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 2. ''osrednja štajerščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke i ...

(''srednještajersko narečje'', ''osrednja štajerščina'') * South Pohorje dialect (''južnopohorsko narečje'', ''štajerska pohorščina'') ** Kozjak subdialect (''kozjaški govor'') *

Kozje-Bizeljsko dialect The Kozje-Bizeljsko dialect (''kozjansko-bizeljsko narečje''), also known as the Brežice-Kozje dialect (''brežiško-kozjansko narečje'') or the Bizeljsko-Sotla dialect (''bizeljsko-obsoteljsko narečje'') is a Slovene dialect in the Styrian d ...

(''kozjansko-bizeljsko narečje'') *

Lower Sava Valley dialect 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 Valley from Litija to Brežice and along the low ...

(''posavsko narečje'', ''posavščina''Toporišič, Jože. 1994. "Fran Ramovš kot narečjeslovec." ''Slavistična revija'' 42: 159–170, p. 168.) ** Zagorje-Trbovlje subdialect (''zagorsko-trboveljski govor'') ** Laško subdialect (''laški govor'') ** Sevnica-Krško subdialect (''sevniško-krški govor'')

References

Slovene dialects in Styria (Slovenia) {{Slavic-lang-stub