Phonological Description of the Local Speech of Šentvid

Abstract

The local speech of Sentvid near Grobelno belongs to the Stajersko dialect group, or, more exactly, to the central Stajersko dialect. Because the short stressed vowels in the final or the only syllable have lengthened the quantitative opposition no longer exists and is replaced by the qualitative opposition; therefore all stressed vowels are long, short are only the unstressed ones.