The Rosen Valley dialect ( sl, rožansko narečje, ''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 (german: Rosental, sl, Rož) of Austria, west of a line from
Villach
Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) 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 ...
to Faak am See and east of a line from
Sittersdorf and
Lake Klopein
Lake Klopein (, ) is a lake near the town of Völkermarkt located within the municipality of Sankt Kanzian in Carinthia, Austria. Lake Klopein is the remaining lake of previously larger lake area, which has spanned over today's Kühnsdorf area. ...
to
Brückl
Brückl ( sl, Mostič) 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 ...
, excluding the
Ebriach dialect area to the southeast. Settlements in the dialect area include
Wernberg,
Köstenberg,
Velden am Wörthersee,
Ludmannsdorf,
Köttmannsdorf
Köttmannsdorf ( sl, Kotmara vas) is a town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia.
Geography
Köttmannsdorf lies southwest of Klagenfurt in the heights of the Sattnitz Mountains. The highest point in the municip ...
,
Viktring
Viktring (Slovene language, ''Slovene'': ''Vetrinj'') is the 13th district of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria.
History
The area was heavily affected by flooding in August 2023.
Buildings
* Viktring Abbey
References
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,
Grafenstein,
Tainach, and
Rosegg (all north of the
River), and
Sankt Jakob im Rosental
Sankt Jakob im Rosental ( sl, Šentjakob v Rožu) 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. ...
,
Feistritz im Rosental,
Windisch Bleiberg,
Ferlach,
Zell, and
Gallizien (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, 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 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 and ''uə'' < long ''o'',
akanye
Akanye or akanje ( be, аканне, russian: а́канье, ), 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 ...
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 morphology (linguistics), morphological and phonology, phonological or phonetic processes. Its chief focus is the sound chan ...
alternation between
and
for example, , instead of , 'drank' (masc., fem.), a phenomenon known as ''švapanje'' in Slovene.
Notes
References
Slovene dialects
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