Editing Slovene language (section)

==Dialects==
[[File:Dialects.svg|left|thumb|A schematic map of Slovene dialects, based on the map by [[Tine Logar]], [[Jakob Rigler]], and other sources]]
{{Main|Slovene dialects}}

Slovene is sometimes characterized as the most diverse Slavic language in terms of [[Slovene dialects|its dialects]],<ref name="MLD 2009">{{cite news |url=http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?id=2177 |title=International Mother Language Day |publisher=Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |date=19 February 2009 |access-date=3 February 2011 |archive-date=13 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113170344/http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?id=2177 |url-status=dead }}</ref> with different degrees of mutual intelligibility.<ref name="Vila2012">{{cite book|author=F. Xavier Vila|title=Survival and Development of Language Communities: Prospects and Challenges|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wndScgIWxEUC&pg=PT56|date=13 November 2012|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-84769-837-7|page=56}}</ref><ref name="Ruhlen1991">{{cite book|author=Merritt Ruhlen|author-link=Merritt Ruhlen|title=A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYwmDE3f6wUC&pg=PA60|year=1991|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-1894-3|page=60}}</ref> Accounts of the number of dialects range from as few as seven<ref>McDonald, Gordon C. 1979. ''Yugoslavia: A Country Study''. Washington, DC: American University, p. 93</ref><ref>Greenberg, Marc L. 2009. "Slovene." In Keith Brown & Sarah Ogilvie (eds.), ''Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World'', pp. 981–984. Oxford: Elsevier, p. 981.</ref><ref>Brown, E. K. & Anne Anderson. 2006. ''Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics: Sca-Spe''. Oxford: Elsevier, p. 424</ref> dialects, often considered dialect groups or dialect bases that are further subdivided into as many as 50 dialects.<ref>Sussex, Roland, & Paul V. Cubberley. 2006. ''The Slavic languages''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 502.</ref> Other sources characterize the number of dialects as nine<ref>Sławski, Franciszek. 1962. Zarys dialektologii południowosłowiańskiej. Warsaw: PAN.</ref> or eight.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Priestly | first1 = Tom M. S. | year = 1993 | title = On 'Drift' in Indo-European Gender Systems.' | journal = Journal of Indo-European Studies | volume = 11 | pages = 339–363 }}</ref> The Slovene proverb "Every village has its own voice" ({{lang|sl|Vsaka vas ima svoj glas}}) depicts the differences in dialects.

The [[Prekmurje Slovene|Prekmurje]] dialect used to have a written norm of its own at one point.<ref name="Jan2000">{{cite book|author=Zoltan Jan|title=Slovensko jezikoslovje danes in jutri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mbPlAAAAMAAJ|page=175|year=2000|publisher=Zavod Republike Slovenije za Šolstvo|isbn=978-961-234-246-3}}</ref> The [[Resian dialect|Resian]] dialects have an independent written norm that is used by their regional state institutions.<ref>
{{cite web|last=Dapit|first=Roberto|title=IDENTITÀ RESIANA FRA "MITO" E IDEOLOGIA: GLI EFFETTI SULLA LINGUA|url=http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/2393/1/13.pdf
|language=it, sl|page=19}}</ref> Speakers of those two dialects have considerable difficulties with being understood by speakers of other varieties of Slovene, needing to [[Code-switching|code-switch]] to Standard Slovene. Other dialects are mutually intelligible when speakers avoid the excessive usage of regionalisms.

Regionalisms are mostly limited to culinary and agricultural expressions, although there are many exceptions.{{citation needed|date=November 2024}} Some [[loanwords]] have become so deeply rooted in the local language that people have considerable difficulties in finding a standard expression for the dialect term (for instance, {{lang|sl|kremšnita}} meaning [[Cremeschnitte|a type of custard cake]] is {{lang|sl|kremna rezina}} in Standard Slovene, but the latter term is very rarely used in speech, being considered inappropriate for non-literary registers{{where|date=August 2023}}). Southwestern dialects incorporate many [[calque]]s and [[loanword]]s from [[Italian language|Italian]], whereas eastern and northwestern dialects are replete with lexemes of German origin. Usage of such words hinders intelligibility between dialects and is greatly discouraged in formal situations.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}