The Jaun Valley dialect ( sl, podjunsko narečje, ''podjunščina'') is a Slovene dialect in the

Carinthian dialect group The Carinthian dialect group (''koroška narečna skupina'', ''koroščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU.) is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene, a South Slavic language. T ...

. It is primarily spoken in the Jaun Valley (german: Jauntal, sl, Podjuna) of Austria as well as in Strojna and

Libeliče Libeliče (; in older sources also ''Ljibeliče'',''Spezial-orts-repertorium von Kärnten. Neubearbeitung auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1890''. 1894. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, p. 78. German: ''Leifling'') is a village ...

, Slovenia. It is spoken west of a line from

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Völkermarkt Völkermarkt (; sl, Velikovec) is a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the administrative capital of Völkermarkt District. It is located within the Drava valley east of the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt, north ...

Eberndorf Eberndorf ( sl, Dobrla vas, archaically ''Dobrla ves'') is a market town of the Völkermarkt District in Carinthia, Austria. Geography It is the main settlement in the Jaun (''Podjuna'') Valley of the Drava River, east of the Carinthian capita ...

, east of

Sittersdorf Sittersdorf ( sl, Žitara vas) is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia in south-central Austria. Geography Sittersdorf lies about 10 km as the crow flies from the Slovenian border. The Vellach and the Suchabach flow through it. The ...

, and north of the

Ebriach dialect The Ebriach dialect ( sl, obirsko narečje, ''obirščina'') is a Slovene dialect in the Carinthian dialect group. It is spoken in Austrian Carinthia around Bad Eisenkappel, in the watershed of the Vellach River ( sl, Bela) and Ebriach Creek (germ ...

. Major settlements in the dialect area are Griffen, Kühnsdorf,

Globasnitz Globasnitz ( Slovene: ''Globasnica'') is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Population A considerable percentage (42.1%) of the population are Carinthian Slovenes, and Slovene is a second official language ...

Bleiburg Bleiburg ( sl, Pliberk) is a small town in the south Austrian state of Carinthia (''Koroška''), south-east of Klagenfurt, in the district of Völkermarkt, some four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the border with Slovenia. The municipality consists ...

, and

Lavamünd Lavamünd ( sl, Labot) is a market town in the district of Wolfsberg in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The Lavamünd hydroelectric power plant on the Drava River and the Koralpe power plant are located in or near Lavamünd. Geography Lavam� ...

.Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 183.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Jaun Valley dialect 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 ( ...

and there has been accentual retraction from final circumflexes. It lacks Slovenian palatalization, has partially preserved the

Proto-Slavic Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the Attested language, unattested, linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately ...

nasal vowel A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel or Amoy []. By contrast, oral vowels are produced wit ...

s, long ''ə'' > ''a'', Proto-Slavic ''a'' > ''ɔ'', ''ła'' > ''wa'', the phoneme /w/ is preserved, and ''šč'' > ''š''. The addition of ''š-'' before

deictics In linguistics, deixis (, ) is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place, or person in context, e.g., the words ''tomorrow'', ''there'', and ''they''. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their de ...

in ''t-'' (e.g., ''štam'' for ''tam'' 'there'; known as ''štekanje'' in Slovene) is typical. The dialects contains a number of subdialects, primarily differing from north to south, but also from east to west to some extent.

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References

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