The Črni Vrh dialect ( sl, črnovrško narečje, ''črnovrščina'') is a
Slovene dialect in the
Rovte dialect group
The Rovte dialect group (''rovtarska narečna skupina'', ''rovtarščina'') is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The Rovte dialects are spoken in the mountainous areas of west-central Slovenia, on the border between the Slovenian L ...
. It is spoken in
Črni Vrh, the upper
Idrijca
The Juridical is a river flowing through the Idrija Hills and Cerkno Hills. It is long. It rises near Vojsko, flows towards northeast and after passing through Idrija turns to the northwest. After passing through Spodnja Idrija and Cerkno it jo ...
Valley,
Hotedršica, and
Rovte.
[Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 18.]
Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Črni Vrh dialect lacks
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 ( ...
. Its phonemic inventory contains soft consonants and it has voicing contrast in final position.
References
Slovene dialects
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