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Rižana Subdialect
The Rižana subdialect (''rižanski govor'', ''rižansko podnarečje'') is a Slovene subdialect of the Istrian dialect in the Littoral dialect group. It is spoken in Italy in most of the municipalities of San Dorligo della Valle and Muggia () south of Trieste, as well as in some southern suburbs of Trieste (especially Servola); in Slovenia, it is spoken in the northern part of Slovene Istria, in the Rižana Valley east and north of Koper, including the settlements of Bertoki, Dekani, Osp, Črni Kal, Presnica, Podgorje, and Zazid. Phonological and morphological characteristics Like the Šavrin Hills subdialect, the Rižana subdialect is based on characteristics of the Lower Carniolan and Littoral dialect groups. Accented vowels do not have length contrast. Secondary palatalization of the velars ''k g h'' has arisen before front vowels.Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU, p. 8. Verbal conjugation lacks the dual. The two subdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovene Dialects
In a purely dialectological sense, Slovene dialects ( sl, slovenska narečja , ) are the regionally diverse varieties that evolved from old Slovene, a South Slavic language of which the standardized modern version is Standard Slovene. This also includes several dialects in Croatia, most notably the so-called Western Goran dialect, which is actually Kostel dialect. In reality, speakers in Croatia self-identify themselves as speaking Croatian, which is a result of a ten centuries old country border passing through the dialects since the Francia. In addition, two dialects situated in Slovene (and the speakers self identify as speaking Slovene) did not evolve from Slovene (left out in the map on the right). The Čičarija dialect is a chakavian dialect and parts of White Carniola were populated by Serbs during the Turkish invasion and therefore Shtokavian is spoken there. Spoken Slovene is often considered to have at least 48 dialects () and 13 subdialects (). The exact number of d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Črni Kal
Črni Kal (; it, San Sergio) is a village in southwestern Slovenia in the City Municipality of Koper. It is best known today for the Črni Kal Viaduct, the longest and the highest viaduct in Slovenia. Name The name ''Črni Kal'' literally means 'black pond', based on the common noun ''kal'' 'pond, watering hole' and referring to a local geographical feature. Architecture Houses The village has some good examples of traditional Karst architecture. One such monument is the Benko House, built in 1489 by stonemasons Andrej (Andrew) and Benko (Benjamin) as indicated by an inscription on the building: ''Andreas et Benco construxerunt''. This makes it oldest surviving farmhouse in the Koper area and is also the oldest signed and dated secular building in all of Slovenia. It stands on the lower edge of the village core and is made of chiseled limestone and marlstone blocks. It comprises two buildings with inscriptions in the Glagolitic alphabet The Glagolitic script (, , ''glago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loanword
A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language. This is in contrast to cognates, which are words in two or more languages that are similar because they share an etymological origin, and calques, which involve translation. Loanwords from languages with different scripts are usually transliterated (between scripts), but they are not translated. Additionally, loanwords may be adapted to phonology, phonotactics, orthography, and morphology of the target language. When a loanword is fully adapted to the rules of the target language, it is distinguished from native words of the target language only by its origin. However, often the adaptation is incomplete, so loanwords may conserve specific features distinguishing them from native words of the target language: loaned phonemes and sound combinations, partial or total conserving of the original spelling, foreign plural or case forms or indecli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dual (grammatical Number)
Dual (abbreviated ) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities (objects or persons) identified by the noun or pronoun acting as a single unit or in unison. Verbs can also have dual agreement forms in these languages. The dual number existed in Proto-Indo-European and persisted in many of its descendants, such as Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, which have dual forms across nouns, verbs, and adjectives, Gothic, which used dual forms in pronouns and verbs, and Old English (Anglo-Saxon), which used dual forms in its pronouns. It can still be found in a few modern Indo-European languages such as Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Lithuanian, Slovene, and Sorbian languages. The majority of modern Indo-European languages, including modern English, however, have lost dual through their development and only show residual traces of it. In all these lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammatical Conjugation
In linguistics, conjugation () is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). For instance, the verb ''break'' can be conjugated to form the words ''break'', ''breaks'', ''broke'', ''broken'' and ''breaking''. While English has a relatively simple conjugation, other languages such as French and Arabic are more complex, with each verb having dozens of conjugated forms. Some languages such as Georgian and Basque have highly complex conjugation systems with hundreds of possible conjugations for every verb. Verbs may inflect for grammatical categories such as person, number, gender, case, tense, aspect, mood, voice, possession, definiteness, politeness, causativity, clusivity, interrogatives, transitivity, valency, polarity, telicity, volition, mirativity, evidentiality, animacy, associativity, pluractionality, and reciprocity. Verbs may also be affected by agreement, polypersonal agreem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Carniolan Dialect Group
The Lower Carniolan dialect group (''dolenjska narečna skupina''Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 12, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 2.) is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The Lower Carniolan dialects are spoken in most of Lower Carniola and in the eastern half of Inner Carniola. Phonological and morphological characteristics Among other features, this group is characterized by pitch accent, extensive diphthongization (''ei, ie, uo''), an ''a''-colored semivowel, shift of ''o'' > ''u'', and partial akanye. Individual dialects and subdialects * Lower Carniolan dialect (''dolenjsko narečje'', ''dolenjščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU, p. 42.) ** Eastern Lower Carniolan subdialect (''vzhodnodolenjski govor'', ''vzhodna dolenjščina'') * North White Carniolan dialect (''severnobelokranjsko narečje'') * South White Carniolan dialect (''južnobelokranj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šavrin Hills Subdialect
The Šavrin Hills subdialect (''šavrinski govor'', ''šavrinščina'', ''šavrinsko podnarečje'') is a Slovene subdialect of the Istrian dialect in the Littoral dialect group. It is spoken in the Šavrin Hills ( sl, Šavrinsko gričevje) south of a line from Koper to south of Zazid. It includes the settlements of Koper, Izola, Portorož, Sečovlje, Šmarje, Sočerga, and Rakitovec. Phonological and morphological characteristics Like the Rižana subdialect, the Šavrin Hills subdialect is based on characteristics of the Lower Carniolan and Littoral dialect groups. The Šavrin Hills subdialect is additionally based on a mixture of Slovene, Croatian, and Serbian dialect elements connected with the settlement of the Uskoks in Istria in the 16th and 17th centuries.Filipi, Goran. 1999. "Diahrono in sinhrono prepletanje govorov v slovenski Istri na primerih ornitonimijskega gradiva." In: Zinka Zorko & Mihaela Koletnik (eds.). 1999. ''Logarjev zbornik: referati s 1. mednarodnega d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zazid
Zazid (; it, Sasseto) is a village in the City Municipality of Koper in the Slovenian Littoral, Littoral region of Slovenia on the border with Croatia. The local church is dedicated to Martin of Tours, Saint Martin and belongs to the Parish of Predloka. References External links Zazid on Geopedia Populated places in the City Municipality of Koper {{Koper-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podgorje, Koper
Podgorje (; it, Piedimonte di Taiano) is a village in the City Municipality of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia on the border with Croatia. Geography The village is located below Mount Slavnik (1,028 m), the highest peak in Slovenian Istria. The location of the village is reflected in its name, which literally means 'below the mountain'. Mass graves Podgorje is the site of two known mass graves associated with the Second World War. The Vrženca Mass Grave ( sl, Grobišče Vrženca) is located about 1.2 km southwest of Podgorje and 1.2 km northwest of the summit of Kojnik Hill, on the east edge of a meadow next to the woods. Spelunkers found human remains at the site; the remains were collected in 1992 and were reburied in the Koper cemetery in 2004. The Podgorje 6 Cave Mass Grave () is located on the steep slope of a small valley in the Jančarija area in the foothills of Mount Slavnik. It contains the remains of undetermined victims. The remains of two people were coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dekani
Dekani (; it, Villa Decani) is a settlement in the City Municipality of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Name ''Dekani'' was first attested in written sources in 1328 as ''Decani'' (and in 1423 as ''Villae Canis''). The name is derived from the noble family ''de Cani''. Locally, the name was misunderstood as derived from Italian ''cane'' 'dog', leading to the local designation ''Pasja vas'' (literally, 'dog village'), the demonym ''Pesjan'', and the associated adjective ''pesjanski''. Another theory, according to Salvator Žitko of the University of Koper, is that the settlement got its name after its owner, the Albanian nobleman Giovanni Dukagjini, in 1480 based on the Venetian archives of the city of Koper. Church The local church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it in 1950 in his apostolic constitution ''Munificentissimus Deus'' as follows: We pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istrian Dialect
This article uses Logar transcription. The Istrian dialect ( , ) is a Slovene dialect spoken in Slovene Istria, as well as some settlements in Italy and Croatia. The dialect borders the Inner Carniolan dialect to the north and northeast, the Southern Chakavian and Buzet dialects to the south, the Southwest Istrian dialect to the southeast, and the Čičarija dialect to the east. The dialect belongs to the Littoral dialect group, and it evolved from Lower Carniolan dialect base. Geographical distribution The dialect is spoken in Slovene Istria in most of the rural areas of the municipalities of Koper ( it, Capodistria), Izola (), Ankaran (), and Piran (), as well as by the Slovenes living in the Italian municipalities of Muggia ( sl, Milje) and San Dorligo della Valle (), in the southern suburbs of Trieste ()— Servola () and Cattinara ()Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, pp. 63, 257, 321.—and the Croatian village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
