Editing Carantania (section)

==Language==
[[File:Kaernten herzogeinsetzung.jpg|thumb|The installation of the Dukes of Carinthia according to a Medieval chronicle]]

In its early stages, the language of [[Carantanians|Carantanian Slavs]] was essentially [[Proto-Slavic language|Proto-Slavic]]. In Slovenian linguistic literature and reference books it is sometimes provisionally termed ''Alpine Slavic'' (''alpska slovanščina''). Its Proto-Slavic character can be deduced from language contacts of Alpine Slavs with the remainders of the Romanised aboriginal population, later also with [[Bavarians]]. The adopted Pre-Slavic placenames and river names and their subsequent phonetic development in Alpine Slavic, as well as Bavarian records of Alpine Slavic names, shed light on the characteristics of the Alpine Slavic language.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/10467/Snoj-Greenberg.pdf |title=O jeziku slovanskih prebivalcev med Donavo in Jadranom v srednjem veku (pogled jezikoslovcev) |first1=Marko |last1=Snoj |first2=Marc |last2=Greenberg |journal=Zgodovinski časopis [Historical Review] |language=sl|trans-title=On the Language of the Medieval Slavic Population in the Area between the Danube and the Adriatic (from a Linguistic Perspective) |volume=66 |issue=3–4 |year=2012}}</ref>

From the 9th century onwards, Alpine Slavic underwent a series of gradual changes and innovations which were characteristic of [[South Slavic languages]]. By roughly the 13th century, these developments gave rise to the [[Slovene language]].<ref>[[Tine Logar]], "Pregled zgodovine slovenskega jezika" (An Outline of the History of Slovene Language). In: ''Slovenski jezik, literatura in kultura''. Ed.: Matjaž Kmecl et al. Ljubljana: Seminar slovenskega jezika, literature in kulture pri Oddelku za slovanske jezike in književnosti Filozofske fakultete Univerze, 1974, p. [103]-113.</ref>