The Rosen Valley dialect (, ''rožanščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU, p. 20.) 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 spoken in the Rosen Valley (, ) of Austria, west of a line from

Villach Villach (; ; ; ) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 61,887. Together wit ...

to Faak am See and east of a line from

Sittersdorf Sittersdorf () is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia in south-central Austria. Geography Sittersdorf lies about 10 km as the crow flies from the Slovenian border. The Vellach and the Suchabach flow through it. The largest bodies ...

and Lake Klopein to

Brückl Brückl () is a town in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Brückl lies at the confluence of the Görtschitz and the Gurk between Magdalensberg Magdalensberg ( Slovene: ''Štalenska gora'') is a ...

, excluding the Ebriach dialect area to the southeast. Settlements in the dialect area include

Wernberg Wernberg () is a municipality in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Wernberg lies on the Drava River at the foot of the Ossiach Tauern range, east of Villach, and between Lake Ossiach on the north, Wörthe ...

, Köstenberg,

Velden am Wörthersee Velden may refer to several places: *Velden am Wörther See, a municipality on lake Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria *Velden, Limburg, a village in the municipality of Venlo, Netherlands *Velden (Pegnitz) Velden is a town in the district Nürnb ...

Ludmannsdorf Ludmannsdorf ( Slovene: ''Bilčovs'') is a town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography It is located on the left bank of the Drava river. Population According to the 2001 census, 28.3% of the population ...

, Köttmannsdorf, Viktring,

Grafenstein Grafenstein () is a town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia Carinthia ( ; ; ) is the southernmost and least densely populated States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mo ...

, Tainach, and

Rosegg Rosegg () is a town in the district of Villach-Land in Carinthia in Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Aust ...

(all north of the

Drava The Drava or Drave (, ; ; ; ; ), historically known as the Dravis or Dravus, is a river in southern Central Europe.

River), and

Sankt Jakob im Rosental Sankt Jakob im Rosental () is a town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography The municipality borders on Slovenia in the south, and the northern boundary is formed by the Drau River. It lies in the western pa ...

Feistritz im Rosental Feistritz im Rosental (), often referred to as simply Feistritz (), is a market town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia. Geography It is located in the ''Rosental'', the U-shaped valley of t ...

, Windisch Bleiberg,

Ferlach Ferlach () in the district of Klagenfurt-Land District, Klagenfurt-Land in Carinthia is the southernmost town in Austria. It is known for its centuries-old gunsmith tradition, part of the Austrian intangible cultural heritage since 2010. Geography ...

Zell Zell may refer to: Places Austria * Zell am See, in Salzburg state * Zell am Ziller, in Tyrol * Zell, Carinthia, in Carinthia * in Upper Austria: ** Bad Zell ** Zell am Moos ** Zell an der Pram ** Zell am Pettenfirst Germany * Zell im Fich ...

, and

Gallizien Gallizien (; ) is a town in the district of Völkermarkt (district), Völkermarkt in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia. Geography Gallizien lies in southern Carinthia on the boundary between the Rosen and Jaun Valley, Jaun valle ...

(south of the Drava River).Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 260.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Rosen Valley dialect has

pitch accent A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (music), pitch (tone (linguistics), linguistic tone) rather than by vol ...

and is distinguished by the preservation of the accent on short syllables following short ''e'' and ''o''. The dialect has diphthongs of the type ''iə'' < long

jat The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in l ...

and ''uə'' < long ''o'',

akanye Akanye or akanje (, , ), literally "''a''-ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes or are realized as more or less close to . It is a case of vowel reduction. The most familiar example is probably Russian akanye (pron ...

of ''e'', and development of velar ''k, g'' > uvular ''q, χ'', and palatalization of ''k, g, h'' > ''č, ž, š'' before front vowels. The dialect lacks standard the Slovene

morphophonemic Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology) is the branch of linguistics that studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes. Its chief focus is the sound changes that take place in morphemes (m ...

alternation between and for example, , instead of , 'drank' (masc., fem.), a phenomenon known as ''švapanje'' in Slovene.

Notes

References

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