The Selca dialect (''selško narečje'', ''selščina'') is a
Slovene dialect in the
Upper Carniolan dialect group. It is spoken in the
Selca Sora
The Sora (German: ''Zayer'' or ''Zeier'') is a right affluent of the Sava River in the western part of Slovenia. The Sora gathers its waters mainly from the Škofja Loka Hills. Its source branches are the Poljane Sora ( sl, Poljanska Sora, also ) ...
Valley, north of a line from
Porezen to Mount Lubnik (1025 m), and south of a line running west of
Zgornje Bitnje
Zgornje Bitnje (; german: Oberfeichting''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 56.) is a settlement just south of Kranj in the Upper Carniola ...
to north of
Dražgoše to west of
Zgornja Sorica.
[Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, pp. 266–267.]
Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Selca dialect is essentially a subdialect of the
Upper Carniolan dialect
This article uses Logar transcription.
The Upper Carniolan dialect ( , ) is a major Slovene dialect, known for extensive syncope, monophthongization of diphthongs, and loss of neuter gender. It is spoken in most (but not all) of Upper Carnio ...
. It has mostly preserved
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 ...
, has Upper Carniolan vowel characteristics (but short ''i'' and ''u'' in place of long), and considerable Upper Carniolan consonantal features (but without hard ''l'' > ''v'' and without ''k g h'' > ''č ž/j š''). Voicing of obstruents is preserved in final position and the clusters ''tk'' and ''tc'' are preserved.
Syncope is sometimes more pronounced than in the Upper Carniolan dialect, and syllabic ''l m n'' are found.
References
Slovene dialects
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