The North Pohorje–Remšnik dialect ( sl, severnopohorsko-remšniško narečje) 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
The Mežica dialect ( sl, mežiško narečje, ''mežiščina'') is a Slovene dialect in the Carinthian dialect group. It is spoken in the triangle bounded by Črna na Koroškem, Dravograd, and Mislinja. Major settlements in the dialect area are ...
on both sides of the
River, extending westwards to east of
Dravograd
Dravograd (; german: Unterdrauburg) 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 ...
, and eastwards to west of
Fala and west of
Selnica ob Dravi
Selnica ob Dravi () is a village on the left bank of the Drava River in Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Selnica ob Dravi.
The parish church in the village is dedicated to Saint Margaret and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdioce ...
. It also extends northwards across the
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
n border at
Soboth
Soboth ( Slovene: ''Sobota'') was a municipality in Austria which merged in January 2015 into Eibiswald in the Deutschlandsberg District in the Austrian state of Styria.
The Soboth Pass
The Soboth Pass (elevation 1347 m) is a high mountain pa ...
and north of the
Radlje ob Dravi
Radlje ob Dravi (, in older sources ''Marbeg'', german: Mahrenberg) 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 Rive ...
border crossing. Major settlements in the dialect area are
Muta,
Vuzenica
Vuzenica (, german: Saldenhofen) is a town and a municipality in northern Slovenia. It lies on the right bank of the Drava River and extends south into the Pohorje Hills. The municipality is included in the Carinthia Statistical Region, which i ...
, Radlje ob Dravi,
Vuhred
Vuhred (; german: Wuchern) 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 Saint Lawrence and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of M ...
,
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 Ca ...
,
Lovrenc na Pohorju
Lovrenc na Pohorju (; german: Sankt Lorenzen an der Kärntnerbahn 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 Sty ...
, 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, 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 ( ...
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
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