Istrian dialect

The dialect is spoken in Slovene Istria in most of the rural areas of the municipalities of Koper (), Izola (), Ankaran (), and Piran (), as well as by the Slovenes living in the Italian municipalities of Muggia () and San Dorligo della Valle (), in the southern suburbs of Trieste ()—Servola () and Cattinara ()—and the Croatian villages of Slum and Brest. Notable settlements include Koper, Izola, Ankaran, Strunjan (), Piran, Portorož (), Dragonja (), Vanganel, Marezige, Dekani, Spodnje Škofije, and Črni Kal in Slovenia, and Muggia, Stramare (), San Dorligo della Valle, and Trieste in Italy. == Accentul changes ==

The Istrian dialect has lost pitch accent on both long and short vowels, and the Šavrin Hills subdialect has lost differentiation between long and short vowels completely, whereas the Rižana subdialect is in the late stages of losing differentiation. It has undergone the → , → , → , → , and (partially) / → / (e.g., ) shifts. == Phonology ==

The dialect's phonology is in many aspects very close to the Inner Carniolan dialect, but in some features it barely shows similarities with other dialects from the Lower Carniolan dialect base. The greatest change happened to and non-final , which in the Lower Carniolan dialect base diphthongized into , but then monophthongized into in some dialects. In the Istrian dialect, however, it diphthongized again, this time into . Stressed and turned into . Stressed turned into or . Short turned into in all positions and turned into . The vowels and turned into , and in the south also into , , or . In the Šavrin Hills subdialect, diphthongs have monophthongized for a second time; turned into , and turned into . == Morphology ==

The preposition pri is used with the genitive instead of the locative. Apart from that, the morphology is poorly researched, but it is probably close to the Inner Carniolan dialect. == Subdivision ==

The Istrian dialect is split into two subdialects: the northern, more archaic Rižana subdialect and the southern Šavrin Hills subdialect, which is more influenced by Croatian. The main differences are monophthongization and the loss of length differentiation in the Šavrin Hills dialect. ==References==