The Kranjska Gora subdialect ( sl, kranjskogorski govor, ''kranjskogorsko podnarečje'') is a Slovene subdialect of the

Gail Valley dialect The Gail Valley dialect ( sl, ziljsko narečje, ''ziljščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU) is the westernmost Slovene dialect in the Carinthian dialect group, spoken in parts of southern ...

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 was included among the Carinthian dialects by

Tine Logar Valentin "Tine" Logar (11 February 1916 – December 25, 2002) was a Slovenian historical linguist, dialectologist, and university professor. He was best known for his works on Slovene dialects, published in ''Slovenska narečja'' (Slovenian ...

and Jakob Rigler ( sl) in contrast to its earlier classification by

Fran Ramovš Fran Ramovš (14 September 1890 – 16 September 1952; pen name Julij Dub) was a Slovenian linguist. He studied the dialects and onomastics of Slovene. Early life and education Fran Ramovš was born in Ljubljana, the capital of the Duchy of Car ...

as an Upper Carniolan dialect.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Kranjska Gora subdialect is characterized by open ''e'' and ''o'' as reflexes of nasal *''ę'' and nasal *''ǫ'', development of long ''ə'' > ''e'' instead of ''a'' (e.g., ''ves'' 'village'; cf. standard Slovene ''vas''),

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 ...

, final ''-i'' > close ''-e'', retention of soft ''ľ'' and ''ń'', ''k'' > ''ť'' or ''tj'' before front vowels, both long and short infinitive forms, and the verbal thematic vowel ''-i-'' > ''-e-''.Marjan Zupan (ed.). 1999. ''Rpečnekova vučca: folklorne pripovedi z visoke Gorenjske (in iz Kanalske doline)''. Ljubljana: Kmečki glas, p. 179.

References

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