The Solčava subdialect (''solčavski govor''
) is a
Slovene subdialect in the
Styrian dialect group. It is a subdialect of the
Upper Savinja dialect spoken around
Solčava
Solčava (; German: ''Sulzbach'') is a village in the Upper Savinja Valley in northern Slovenia close to the Austrian border. It is the largest settlement and the seat of the Municipality of Solčava. Traditionally it belonged to the region of Sty ...
and the
Logar Valley. It is the westernmost of the (sub)dialects in the Styrian dialect group.
Phonological and morphological characteristics
The Solčava subdialect is partially influenced by
Carinthian dialects
Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Bavarian group. Carint ...
. The subdialect has the
Upper Carniolan vowel system (except for the Upper Carniolan reflexes of long
yer
A yer is either of two letters in Cyrillic alphabets, ъ (ѥръ, ''jerŭ'') and ь (ѥрь, ''jerĭ''). The Glagolitic alphabet used, as respective counterparts, the letters (Ⱏ) and (Ⱐ). They originally represented phonemically the "ult ...
s, here becoming ''e:/a:'') and a slightly closer quality of ''e'', becoming diphthongized to ''i:e''. Secondarily accented ''e'' and ''o'' become ''e:'' and ''o:'', as in Upper Carniolan. The reflex of short and secondarily accented ''ə'' is also the same as in Upper Carniolan.
[Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU, p. 53.]
References
Slovene dialects in Styria (Slovenia)
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