Slovenian dialects

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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 the following, listed by region:

Brkini
- banjško (sP)
- baško (sP)
- borjansko
- bovško
- briško
- brkinsko
Bržanija (near Trieste)
- bržansko
Celje
- celjsko
Cerkljansko
- cerkljansko
Haloze
- činžaško
- čiško
- črnovrško
- goričansko
- gradiščansko
- haloško,
Horjul
- horjulsko
Idrija
- idrijsko,
Slovenian Istria
- istrsko
Notranjska
- južno belokranjsko (sG)
- južno notranjsko
kapleško
kobariško
Kostel
- kostelsko
kozjansko - bizeljsko
kozjaško (sP)
Kranjska Gora
- kranjskogorsko (sP)
Kras (the Karst)
- kraško
Laško)
- laško (sP)
Ljubljana
- logaško
- lovrenško
- ljubljansko
Maribor
- mariborsko
Mežica
- medijsko
- mežiško
- mešano kočevsko (sP)
Notranjska
- nadiško
- notranjsko
along the Soča River
- obirsko
- obsoško
Podjuna
- podjunsko
Pohorje
južno pohorsko (sG)
- pohorsko
Prlekija
- poljansko
- posavsko
- prekmursko (sG)
- prleško
Resia
- puščavsko
- remšniško
- rezijansko
Rižana
- ribniško
- rižansko (sP),
Savinja Valley
- rožansko
- savinjsko
Solčava
- sevniško - krško (sP)
- solčavsko (sP)
Škofja Loka
- selško
- severno belokranjsko (sG)
- severno pohorsko - remšniško
- srednje beloknjanjsko (sG)
- srednje savinjsko (sG)
- srednje štajersko (sG)
- šavrinsko (sP)
- škofjeloško
Tolmin
- šokarsko
- tersko
- trbonsko
- tolminsko
Trbovlje
- trboveljsko
Vrtojba
- vrtojbensko
- 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.