Phonological Description of the Local Speech of Ložnica pri Žalcu (SLA 324)

Abstract

The local speech of Ložnica pri Žalcu (Slovenian Linguistic Atlas, point 324) belongs to the Štajersko dialect group, or, more exactly, to the dialect of the Middle Savinja Valley. The vivid past of this settlement as well as its position near the major road connection between Celje and Ljubljana has influenced the relatively fast development of this speech as well as linguistic interaction resulting in various unpredictable doublets for linguistic phenomena of the same kind. Because of the numerous positional and free variants the system of long vowels is rather complicated as well.