The Slovene Hills dialect ( sl, goričansko narečje, ''goričanščina'') is a Slovene dialect in the

Pannonian dialect group The Pannonian dialect group (''panonska narečna skupina''), or northeastern dialect group, is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The Pannonian dialects are spoken in northeastern Slovenia (Prekmurje, in the eastern areas of Sloveni ...

. It is spoken in the

Slovene Hills The Slovene Hills or the Slovenian Hills ( sl, Slovenske gorice, german: Windische Bühel or ) is the largest hilly region of Slovenia, a smaller part is located in the Austrian province of Styria. It is situated in the northeast of the country and ...

( sl, Slovenske gorice) between the

Drava The Drava or Drave''Utrata Fachwörterbuch ...

and Mura rivers east of a line from

Maribor Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...

Šentilj v Slovenskih Goricah Šentilj v Slovenskih Goricah ( or ; sl, Šentilj v Slovenskih goricah, in older sources ''Sveti Ilj v Slovenskih Goricah'', german: Sct. Egidi in Windischbüheln) is a town and the administrative seat of the Municipality of Šentilj in northeaste ...

and west of a line from

Radenci Radenci (; german: Bad Radein) is a town on the right bank of the Mura River in the Mura Statistical Region of northeastern Slovenia. It is a well-known spa town and was first mentioned in written documents dating back to 1436. After 1833, when a n ...

to Gradišče.Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 53.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Slovene Hills dialect features different reflexes of long etymological ''o'' and

jat The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and su ...

based on former tonemic differences, newly accented ''e'' is open, and ''r'' > ''ar''. Neuter nouns have undergone feminization or masculinization, and plural locative and instrumental endings are typically characterized by an ''a'' vowel (e.g., ''-ah'' instead of ''-ih'').

References

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