The Laško subdialect (''laški govor''Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 12, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 2.) is a Slovene subdialect in the

Styrian dialect group The Styrian dialect group (''štajerska narečna skupina'', ''štajerščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU, p. 52.) is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The Lower Carniolan ...

. It is a subdialect of the

Lower Sava Valley dialect The Lower Sava Valley dialect (''posavsko narečje'', ''posavščina'') is a Slovene dialect in the Styrian dialect group, bordering on the Lower Carniolan dialect group. It is spoken in the Sava Valley from Litija to Brežice and along the lower ...

, extending from east of

Zidani Most Zidani Most (; german: Steinbrück) is a settlement in the Municipality of Laško in eastern Slovenia. It lies at the confluence of the Sava and Savinja rivers. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the r ...

nearly to Jurklošter, and in the areas of Rimske Toplice and

Laško Laško (; german: Tüffer) is a spa town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Laško. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. The municipality is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region. The town is locat ...

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Laško subdialect exhibits strong Styrian features. The subdialect is characterized by loss of

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 ( ...

, development of close diphthongal ''ie'' from old acute nasal *''ę'' and neoacute etymological ''e'' and close diphthongal ''uo'' from old long and old acute nasal *''ǫ'' and neoacute etymological ''o''. Masculine genitive ''-ov'' has developed into ''-u'', as has the neuter nominative adjectival ending ''-o''. The vowel ''a'' has developed a ''ə''-like character in prepositions and prefixes derived from prepositions. Final ''-o'' and ''-e'' in neuter nouns has been lost, transforming these into masculine nouns that now follow the masculine declension pattern. The cluster ''šč'' has been reduced to ''š'' and homorganic dental clusters have dissimilated to velar-dental clusters (e.g., ''dn'' > ''gn'', ''tl'' > ''kl''). Morphologically, there has been contamination between present-tense verbs in ''-im'' and ''-em''.Korošec, Tomo. 1977. Govor mesta Laško. In: ''Laški zbornik 2007'', pp. 143-156. Laško: Knjižnica.

References

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