The Rosen Valley dialect ( sl, rožansko narečje, ''rožanščina''Logar, Tine. 1996. ''Dialektološke in jezikovnozgodovinske razprave''. Ljubljana: SAZU, p. 20.) 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 in the Rosen Valley (german: Rosental, sl, Rož) of Austria, west of a line from

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the po ...

to Faak am See and east of a line from

Sittersdorf Sittersdorf ( sl, Žitara vas) is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia in south-central Austria. Geography Sittersdorf lies about 10 km as the crow flies from the Slovenian border. The Vellach and the Suchabach flow through it. The ...

and

Lake Klopein Lake Klopein (, ) is a lake near the town of Völkermarkt located within the municipality of Sankt Kanzian in Carinthia, Austria. Lake Klopein is the remaining lake of previously larger lake area, which has spanned over today's Kühnsdorf area. W ...

to Brückl, excluding the

Ebriach dialect The Ebriach dialect ( sl, obirsko narečje, ''obirščina'') is a Slovene dialect in the Carinthian dialect group. It is spoken in Austrian Carinthia around Bad Eisenkappel, in the watershed of the Vellach River ( sl, Bela) and Ebriach Creek (germ ...

area to the southeast. Settlements in the dialect area include

Wernberg Wernberg ( sl, Vernberk) is a municipality in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Wernberg lies on the Drava River at the foot of the Ossiach Tauern range, east of Villach, and between Lake Ossiach on the no ...

, Köstenberg,

Velden am Wörthersee Velden may refer to several places: *Velden am Wörther See, a municipality on lake Wörthersee in Carinthia, Austria *Velden, Limburg, a village in the municipality of Venlo, Netherlands *Velden (Pegnitz) Velden is a town in the district Nürnbe ...

Ludmannsdorf Ludmannsdorf ( Slovene: ''Bilčovs'') is a town in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography It is located on the left bank of the Drava river. Population According to the 2001 census, 28.3% of the population ...

, Köttmannsdorf, Viktring,

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, Tainach, and

Rosegg Rosegg ( sl, Rožek) is a town in the district of Villach-Land in Carinthia in Austria. Neighboring municipalities Personalities It is the birthplace of the painter Peter Markovič, after whom the local Slovene cultural association is named. L ...

(all north of the

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

River), and

Sankt Jakob im Rosental Sankt Jakob im Rosental ( sl, Šentjakob v Rožu) is a town in the district of Villach-Land in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography The municipality borders on Slovenia in the south, and the northern boundary is formed by the Drau River. I ...

, Feistritz im Rosental,

Windisch Bleiberg Windisch may refer to: * Windisch (surname) (including a list of people with the name) * Windisch, Switzerland Windisch is a municipality in the district of Brugg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. Etymology Windisch is situated at the s ...

Ferlach Ferlach ( sl, Borovlje) in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in Carinthia is the southernmost town in Austria. It is known for its centuries-old gunsmith tradition, part of the Austrian intangible cultural heritage since 2010. Geography It is situat ...

Zell Zell may refer to: Places Austria * Zell am See, in Salzburg state * Zell am Ziller, in Tyrol * Zell, Carinthia, in Carinthia * in Upper Austria: ** Bad Zell ** Zell am Moos ** Zell an der Pram ** Zell am Pettenfirst Germany * Zell im Fichtelg ...

, and

Gallizien Gallizien (; sl, Galicija) is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in 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 i ...

(south of the Drava River).Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 260.

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Rosen Valley dialect has

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 is distinguished by the preservation of the accent on short syllables following short ''e'' and ''o''. The dialect has diphthongs of the type ''iə'' < long

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 ...

and ''uə'' < long ''o'',

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 ...

of ''e'', and development of velar ''k, g'' > uvular ''q, χ'', and palatalization of ''k, g, h'' > ''č, ž, š'' before front vowels. The dialect lacks standard the Slovene

morphophonemic Morphophonology (also morphophonemics or morphonology) is the branch of linguistics that studies the interaction between morphological and phonological or phonetic processes. Its chief focus is the sound changes that take place in morphemes (mi ...

alternation between and for example, , instead of , 'drank' (masc., fem.), a phenomenon known as ''švapanje'' in Slovene.

Notes

References

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