Slovene dialects

Since the Slovenian language area rarely formed a political unity through the centuries and beyond the various valleys and regions were isolated by the mountainous topography, numerous very different but also very original dialects were out. These can be summarized into seven groups. A special case outside of these categories is the Resianische.

• 2.1 change from [g ] to [ h]

The individual dialects

Carinthian Slovenian

The Carinthian dialects branch of Slovene (Slovene: Korosko ) extends beyond the present borders of Carinthia. It is spoken in the bilingual areas that belonged until 1918 to the Duchy of Carinthia (ie next to today's state of the upper Val Canale Tarvisio and the Mießtal ). In addition, the Carinthian- Slovenian dialect form of the Slovenian Rateče (German: Ratschach ), a town of Carniola ( Carniola ), as well as widespread in southern Styria Drau Valley. The Carinthian dialects are particularly original.

The dialects of Carinthian Slovenes can be divided into:

In the German-speaking areas today can be traced up to the top of the Slavic Moelltal underbody of place and field names moor. Moreover, German and Slovenian have influenced each other through the centuries in sound and vocabulary.

Linguistic phenomena

Change from [g ] to [ h]

It is striking in many Slovenian dialects by the replacement of the "g" reproduced consonants [g ] through [h ] - not to be confused with [ x], which is reproduced in Slovenia by "h". The name " Gregory " is then expressed for example as " hrehor ". This phenomenon occurs among others in the coastal region ( Primorsko ) in Carniola and Carinthia.

This g / h change comes in the Slavic languages ​​often and often distinguishes the different languages ​​from each other (eg limit is called in Czech hranice, granica in Croatian; city in Russian gorod, Uzhgorod in Ukrainian ).