The Horjul dialect ( sl, horjulsko narečje, ''horjulščina'') is a
Slovene dialect in the
Rovte dialect group. It is spoken southwest of
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...
in the settlements of
Horjul
Horjul () is a small town in the Inner Carniola region of Slovenia. It is the administrative center of the Municipality of Horjul. It developed from a clustered village on the north side of the marshy valley of Horjulka Creek. It includes the hamle ...
,
Polhov Gradec
Polhov Gradec (; german: Billichgra(t)z''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 118.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Dobrova–Polhov G ...
,
Log pri Brezovici
Log pri Brezovici () is a settlement southwest of Ljubljana in central Slovenia. It is the administrative centre of the Municipality of Log-Dragomer in the Inner Carniola region. The territory of the settlement is traversed by the A1 motorway, whi ...
,
Vrhnika
Vrhnika (; german: Oberlaibach;''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 120. la, Nauportus) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Mun ...
,
Verd
Verd (; in older sources also ''Vrd'',''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 120. german: Werd) is a settlement south of Vrhnika in the Inne ...
,
Logatec
Logatec (; german: Loitsch, it, Longatico) is a town in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Logatec. It is located roughly in the centre of Inner Carniola, between the capital Ljubljana and Postojna. The town of Logatec has seen rap ...
, and
Kalce.
[Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 57.]
Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Horjul dialect mostly 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 ...
. It exhibits accentual retraction to ultra-short syllables. The diphthongs ''ie'' and ''ua'' are the result of newly accented formerly short vowels. There are two semivowels and extensive
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 ...
in the dialect. Soft ''l'' is pronounced ''ľ'' and soft ''n'' as a nasalized ''j''. The vowel ''i'' is frequent as a reflex of ''e'' or ''ə''; the clusters ''tl'' and ''dl'' are preserved, but ''šč'' > ''š''. The phoneme ''g'' has lenited to
Voicing contrast is preserved in final position. The dialect uses the short infinitive (without ''-i''), and the verbal thematic vowel ''-i-'' has been replaced by ''-e-''.
References
Slovene dialects
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