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Spoken Slovenian has at least 32 main Dialects (''narečje'') (dI) and speeches (''govor'') ('''sP'''). This is a reasonably large number for any language; when considering the amount of speakers, however, this makes Slovenian one of the most diverse languages in the world. The main regional groups are: #koroško (Carinthian), #vzhodno (Eastern), #severovzhodno (Northeastern), #zahodno (Western), #osrednje (Central), #gorenjsko (of Upper Carniola), #belokranjsko (of White Carniola), #dolenjsko (of Lower Carniola), #primorsko (Littoral). There are also local groups and subgroups (sG), such as: banjško (sP), baško (sP), borjansko, bovško, briško, brkinsko (in Brkini ), bržansko (in Bržanija near Trieste ), celjsko (in Celje ), cerkljansko (in Cerkljansko), činžaško, čiško, črnovrško, goričansko, gradiščansko, haloško (in Haloze ), horjulsko (in Horjul ), idrijsko (in Idrija ), istrsko (in Slovenian Istria ), južno belokranjsko ('''sG''') južno notranjsko (in southern Notranjska ), južno pohorsko ('''sG'''), kapleško, kobariško, kostelsko, kozjansko - bizeljsko, kozjaško (sP), kranjskogorsko (in Kranjska Gora ) (sP), kraško (in Kras (the Karst)), laško (in Laško ) (sP), logaško, lovrenško, ljubljansko (in Ljubljana ), mariborsko (in Maribor ), medijsko, mešano kočevsko (sP), mežiško (in Mežica ), nadiško, notranjsko (in Notranjska ), obirsko, obsoško (along river Soča ), podjunsko (in Podjuna ), pohorsko (in Pohorje ), poljansko, posavsko, prekmursko ('''sG'''), prleško (in Prlekija ), puščavsko, remšniško, rezijansko (in Rezija ( Resia )), ribniško, rižansko (in Rižana) (sP), rožansko, savinjsko (in the Savinja Valley), sevniško - krško (sP), solčavsko (in Solčava ) (sP), selško, severno belokranjsko ('''sG'''), severno pohorsko - remšniško, srednje beloknjanjsko ('''sG'''), srednje savinjsko ('''sG'''), srednje štajersko ('''sG'''), šavrinsko (sP), škofjeloško (in Škofja Loka ), šokarsko, tersko, trbonsko, tolminsko (in Tolmin ), trboveljsko (in Trbovlje ), vrtojbensko (in Vrtojba ), vzhodno dolenjsko ('''sG'''), vzhodno gorenjsko ('''sG'''), vzhodno prleško ('''sG'''), zagorsko - trboveljsko (sP), zasavsko, ziljsko, zgornje savinjsko ('''sG'''). The various dialects are so different from each other that a speaker of one dialect may have a very difficult time understanding a speaker of another, particularly if they belong to different regional groups. In such communication, ''standard Slovenian'', comparable to Received Pronunciation in the UK, is used per convention. The dialects from the Carinthian region differ from each other less in their deep structure than in their vocal and lexical image; from Literary Language , however, they differ no more than the other marginal dialects. EXTERNAL LINK |
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