Resian dialect
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| Resian | ||
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| Spoken in: | Italy | |
| Region: | Resia valley | |
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| Language family: | Indo-European | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
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| ISO 639-3: | –
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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.
Many notable linguists have studied the dialect and writtena bout it, including Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, Milko Matičetov and Roberto Dapit.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Resianic homepage, containing texts in Italian, German, Slovenian, and English, and a Resian-Slovenian dictionary
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