Haloze dialect

{{Short description|Dialect of Slovene}} The '''Haloze dialect''' ({{langx|sl|haloško narečje}},<ref>Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 12, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 2.</ref> ''haloščina''<ref>Kolarič, Rudolf. 1956. "Slovenska narečja." ''Jezik in slovstvo'' 2(6): 247–254, p. 252.</ref>) is a Slovene dialect in the Pannonian dialect group. It is spoken in the Haloze Hills south of the line defined by the Dravinja and Drava rivers, extending to the Croatian border, bounded on the west by a line running from southeast of Majšperk to Donačka Gora and the Macelj border crossing. Larger settlements in the dialect area include Podlehnik, Žetale, and Gradišče.<ref name="Toporisic">Toporišič, Jože. 1992. ''Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika''. Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, p. 56.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Karta slovenskih narečij z večjimi naselji |url=https://fran.si/204/sla-slovenski-lingvisticni-atlas/datoteke/SLA_Karta-narecij.pdf |website=Fran.si |publisher=Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU |accessdate=June 8, 2020}}</ref>

==Phonological and morphological characteristics== The Haloze dialect lacks pitch accent and is characterized by the phonological development of hard ''ł'' > ''o''. The adjectival declension has ''o'' instead of standard ''e'' (e.g., ''-oga'' instead of ''-ega''). The cluster ''šč'' is preserved in the dialect and the ending ''-do'' is frequent in third-person plural verb forms.<ref name="Toporisic"/>

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