TheGail Valley dialect (Slovene:ziljsko narečje,[1]ziljščina[2]: 20 ) is the westernmostSlovene dialect in theCarinthian dialect group, spoken in parts of southernCarinthia inAustria, in the northeasternmost part of theProvince of Udine inItaly, and in northeasternUpper Carniola inSlovenia.
It is spoken in AustrianCarinthia in theGail Valley east ofHermagor and west ofFaak am See (Slovene:Bače), in the upperCanale Valley (Italian:Val Canale,Slovene:Kanalska dolina) along theFella River (Slovene:Bela) to east ofPontebba and, together with theKranjska Gora subdialect, along the upper course of theSava Dolinka River to east ofGozd Martuljek. Settlements in the dialect area includeMalborghetto,Ugovizza,Valbruna,Camporosso,Cave del Predil, andTarvisio (in Italy),Förolach, Faak am See,Feistritz an der Gail,Arnoldstein,Fürnitz, andMallestig (in Austria), andRateče, Kranjska Gora, and Gozd Martuljek (in Slovenia).[3][4] Viktor Paulsen[5] divided the Gail Valley dialect into six subdialects: the Egg-Görtschach subdialect (comprising the Egg and Görtschach groups), the Potschach subdialect, the Saak subdialect, the Vorderberg subdialect, the Feistritz subdialect, and the Radendorf subdialect.[6]
The Gail Valley dialect haspitch accent, reduction of vowels toə in preaccentual position, development of opene ando >a in postaccentual position, shortening of long vowels in closed syllables, frequentepentheticn,v >b beforee i r l, hiatus as a result of elision of intervocalic [w] (e.g.,krava >kraa 'cow'), voiced obstruents in word-final position, and an inflected conditional auxiliary (besem, besi, be).[3] The Gail Valley dialect has palatalization ofk, g, h >č, ž, š before front vowels and lacks the standard Slovenemorphophonemic alternation between [l] and [w]; for example,[piu̯],[piu̯a] instead of[piu̯],[pila] 'drank' (masc., fem.), a phenomenon known asšvapanje in Slovene.[2]: 33
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