The Jaun Valley dialect ( sl, podjunsko narečje, ''podjunščina'') is a
Slovene dialect in the
Carinthian dialect group
The Carinthian dialect group (''koroška narečna skupina'', ''koroščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU.) is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene, a South Slavic language. T ...
. It is primarily spoken in the Jaun Valley (german: Jauntal, sl, Podjuna) of Austria as well as in
Strojna
Strojna () is a dispersed settlement in the hills northwest of Ravne na Koroškem in the Carinthia region in northern Slovenia, close to the border with Austria.
The local church
Church may refer to:
Religion
* Church (building), a building fo ...
and
Libeliče, Slovenia. It is spoken west of a line from
Diex to
Völkermarkt
Völkermarkt (; sl, Velikovec) is a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the administrative capital of Völkermarkt District. It is located within the Drava valley east of the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt, nort ...
to
Eberndorf, east of
Sittersdorf, and north of the
Ebriach dialect
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 (g ...
. Major settlements in the dialect area are
Griffen, Kühnsdorf,
Globasnitz,
Bleiburg, and
Lavamünd
Lavamünd ( sl, Labot) is a market town in the district of Wolfsberg in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
The Lavamünd hydroelectric power plant on the Drava River and the Koralpe power plant are located in or near Lavamünd.
Geography
Lavam� ...
.
[Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 183.]
Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Jaun Valley dialect has
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 ...
and there has been accentual retraction from final circumflexes. It lacks Slovenian palatalization, has partially preserved the
Proto-Slavic
Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the Attested language, unattested, linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately ...
nasal vowel
A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel or Amoy []. By contrast, oral vowels are produced with ...
s, long ''ə'' > ''a'', Proto-Slavic ''a'' > ''ɔ'', ''ła'' > ''wa'', the phoneme /w/ is preserved, and ''šč'' > ''š''. The addition of ''š-'' before
deictics in ''t-'' (e.g., ''štam'' for ''tam'' 'there'; known as ''štekanje'' in Slovene) is typical. The dialects contains a number of subdialects, primarily differing from north to south, but also from east to west to some extent.
Notes
References
Slovene dialects
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