TheEbriach dialect (Slovene:obirsko narečje,[1]obirščina[2]) is aSlovene dialect in theCarinthian dialect group. It is spoken in AustrianCarinthia aroundBad Eisenkappel, in the watershed of the Vellach River (Slovene:Bela) and Ebriach Creek (German:Ebriachbach,Slovene:Obirski potok), andJezersko.[3][4]
The Ebriach dialect hasuvular stops in place ofvelars, it has close reflexes of thenasal vowels, and varying reflexes of the old acute and neoacute on short syllables. There has been accentual retraction from circumflected long vowels (e.g.,vèčer vs. standard Slovenevečêr).[3]
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