The North Pohorje–Remšnik dialect () 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 spoken east of the

Mežica dialect Mežica (; German: ''Mießdorf'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Mežica. It lies on the Meža River in the traditional Slovenian province of Carinthia) near the Austrian border. The town developed close to ...

on both sides of the

Drava The Drava or Drave (, ; ; ; ; ), historically known as the Dravis or Dravus, is a river in southern Central Europe.

River, extending westwards to east of

Dravograd Dravograd (; ) is a small town in northern Slovenia, close to the border with Austria. It is the seat of the Municipality of Dravograd. It lies on the Drava River at the confluence with the Meža and the Mislinja. It is part of the traditional ...

, and eastwards to west of Fala and west of Selnica ob Dravi. It also extends northwards across the

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n border at

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and north of the

Radlje ob Dravi Radlje ob Dravi (, in older sources ''Marbeg'', ) is a town in the Municipality of Radlje ob Dravi in northeastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the municipality. The settlement lies on a terrace on the left bank of the Drava River. Name The name o ...

border crossing. Major settlements in the dialect area are Muta,

Vuzenica Vuzenica (, ) is a major settlement in northern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Vuzenica. It lies on the right bank of the Drava River and extends south into the Pohorje Hills. The municipality is included in the Carinthia Stati ...

, Radlje ob Dravi,

Vuhred Vuhred (; ) is a village on the right bank of the Drava River in the Municipality of Radlje ob Dravi in Slovenia. The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to Lawrence of Rome, Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese o ...

Ribnica na Pohorju Ribnica na Pohorju () is a settlement in northern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Ribnica na Pohorju. It lies in the Pohorje Hills west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included in the Car ...

Lovrenc na Pohorju Lovrenc na Pohorju (; or ''Sankt Lorenzen ob Marburg'') is a settlement in northeastern Slovenia. It lies in the Pohorje Hills to the west of Maribor. The area is part of the traditional region of Lower Styria, Styria. It is now included in the D ...

, and Fala.Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 53.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The North Pohorje–Remšnik dialect lacks

pitch accent A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or morphemes that are prominent, as indicated by a distinct contrasting pitch (music), pitch (tone (linguistics), linguistic tone) rather than by vol ...

and long ''a'' > ''ɔ''. The dialects contains the clusters ''tl/dl'' (sometimes > ''kl/gl''). Neuter nouns have largely become feminine, and the adjectival suffix ''-ok'' is often ''-ek''.

References

Slovene dialects Pohorje {{Slavic-lang-stub