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Čičarija Dialect
The Čičarija dialect (''čiško narečje'', ''čički dialekt''Rigler, Jakob. 1963. ''Južnonotranjski govori''. Ljubljana: SAZU, pp. 11–12.) is a Slovene dialects, Slovene dialect in the Littoral dialect group. It is spoken in a few villages in Slovenian Istria near the Croatian border in the Čičarija region in the villages of Skadanščina, Golac, Obrov, Hrpelje-Kozina, Obrov, Podbeže, Podgrad, Ilirska Bistrica, Podgrad, Poljane pri Podgradu, Poljane, Račice, Ilirska Bistrica, Račice and Starod.Smole, Vera. 2001. "Zahodna slovenska narečja." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 15, pp. 35–38. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, pp. 35. By number of speakers, it is one of the smallest Slovene dialects. Phonological and morphological characteristics The Čičarija dialect is a mixed Slovenian–Croatian Central Chakavian dialect. It has been influenced by the Inner Carniolan dialect and has linguistic features indicating that it did not develop in the area, but was introduced throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovene Dialects
In a purely dialectological sense, Slovene dialects ( , ) are the regionally diverse varieties that evolved from old Slovene, a South Slavic language of which the standardized modern version is Standard Slovene. This also includes several dialects in Croatia, most notably the so-called Western Goran dialect, which is actually Kostel dialect. In reality, speakers in Croatia self-identify themselves as speaking Croatian, which is a result of a ten centuries old country border passing through the dialects since the Francia. In addition, two dialects situated in Slovene (and the speakers self identify as speaking Slovene) did not evolve from Slovene (left out in the map on the right). The Čičarija dialect is a Chakavian dialect and parts of White Carniola were populated by Serbs during the Turkish invasion and therefore Shtokavian is spoken there. Spoken Slovene is often considered to have at least 48 dialects () and 13 subdialects (). The exact number of dialects is ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
