The Ebriach dialect ( sl, obirsko narečje, ''obirščina'') is a
Slovene dialect in the
Carinthian dialect group. It is spoken in Austrian
Carinthia around
Bad Eisenkappel, in the watershed of the Vellach River ( sl, Bela) and Ebriach Creek (german: Ebriachbach, sl, Obirski potok), and
Jezersko.
[Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 152.]
Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Ebriach dialect has
uvular stops in place of
velars, it has close reflexes of the
nasal vowels, and varying reflexes of the old acute and neoacute on short syllables. There has been accentual retraction from circumflected long vowels (e.g., ''vèčer'' vs. standard Slovene ''večêr'').
References
Slovene dialects
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