Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Horjul dialect mostly has pitch accent. It exhibits accentual retraction to ultra-short syllables. The diphthongs ''ie'' and ''ua'' are the result of newly accented formerly short vowels. There are two semivowels and extensive akanye in the dialect. Soft ''l'' is pronounced ''ľ'' and soft ''n'' as a nasalized ''j''. The vowel ''i'' is frequent as a reflex of ''e'' or ''ə''; the clusters ''tl'' and ''dl'' are preserved, but ''šč'' > ''š''. The phoneme ''g'' has lenited to � Voicing contrast is preserved in final position. The dialect uses the short infinitive (without ''-i''), and the verbal thematic vowel ''-i-'' has been replaced by ''-e-''.References
Slovene dialects {{Slavic-lang-stub