Resian dialect

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The Resian dialect is a distinct dialect of the Slovenian language in Italy's Resia valley. Because of its isolation, the Resian dialect has different phonetics than other Slovenian dialects. It even has a different alphabet containing the letter W, not used in Ljudevit Gaj's Slavic alphabet, or for that matter in any Slavic literary alphabet except Polish and Lusatian. Written Resian can be mostly understood by Slovenians, but spoken Resian is much harder to understand and may be considered mutually unintelligible due to archaisms not preserved in modern Slovenian and significant Italian influence on the vocabulary and accent.


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Resianica Homepage, containing texts in italian, german, slovenian and english, and a resian - slovenian dictionary
http://147.162.119.1:8081/resianica/docs/home.jsp

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