Inner Carniolan dialect

The Inner Carniolan dialect (notranjsko narečje,notranjščina) is a Slovene dialect in the Littoral dialect group. It is spoken in a relatively large area, extending from western Inner Carniola up to Trieste in Italy, also covering the upper Vipava Valley and the southern part of the Karst Plateau.

The dialect is spoken in most of the municipalities of Postojna, Pivka, Ilirska Bistrica, Divača, Hrpelje-Kozina, Vipava, in most areas of the municipalities of Sežana and Ajdovščina, as well as the Municipalities of Monrupino and Sgonico in Italy, and in many Slovene-inhabited villages in the Municipality of Trieste (most notably in Opicina).

It is bounded to the east by the Lower Carniolan dialect, to north by the Črni Vrh dialect, to the northwest by the Karst dialect, and to the southeast by the Rižana subdialect and Čičarija dialect.

The Inner Carniolan dialect has a Lower Carniolan base. The dialect does not have pitch accent. Short syllables are frequently lengthened. Phonological developments include u > y, syllabic ł > ou, newly accented e > ie and o > uo/ua, and preservation of the cluster šč. There has been accentual simplification by replacing mobile accent with fixed accent position. Lexically, the dialect shows extensive influence from Romance languages.

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