The Slovenian Hills dialect is a Slovene dialect in the Pannonian dialect group

Pannonian dialect group

The Pannonian dialect group , or northeastern dialect group, is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The Pannonian dialects are spoken in northeastern Slovenia , and among the Hungarian Slovenes.-Phonological and morphological characteristics:Among other features, this group is...

. It is spoken in the Slovenian Hills

Slovenske gorice

Slovenske gorice with an area of 1017 km2 is the largest hilly region of Slovenia, a smaller part is located in the Austrian province of Styria...

  between the Drava

Drava

Drava or Drave is a river in southern Central Europe, a tributary of the Danube. It sources in Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy, and flows east through East Tirol and Carinthia in Austria, into Slovenia , and then southeast, passing through Croatia and forming most of the border between Croatia and...

 and Mura rivers east of a line from Maribor

Maribor

Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia with 157,947 inhabitants . Maribor is also the largest and the capital city of Slovenian region Lower Styria and the seat of the Municipality of Maribor....

 to Šentilj v Slovenskih Goricah

Šentilj v Slovenskih goricah

Šentilj v Slovenskih Goricah is a town and the administrative centre of the Municipality of Šentilj in northeastern Slovenia.The parish church, from which the settlement also gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Giles. It was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1329. In 1532 it was...

 and west of a line from Radenci

Radenci

Radenci is a town and a municipality on the right bank of the Mura River in the Mura statistical region of northeastern Slovenia. It is a well-known spa town and was first mentioned in written documents dating to 1436. After 1833, when a new source of mineral water was discovered, it developed...

 to Gradišče

Gradišče, Tišina

Gradišče is a small village in the Municipality of Tišina in the Prekmurje region of northeastern Slovenia.János Kühár , a priest and writer in the Prekmurje dialect active in Vas County, Hungary, and his brother István Kühár, a politician, were born in Gradišče.-External links:*...

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Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Slovenian Hills dialect features different reflexes of long etymological o and jat based on former tonemic differences, newly accented e is open, and r > ar. Neuter nouns have undergone feminization or maculinization, and plural locative and instrumental endings are typically characterized by an a vowel (e.g., -ah instead of -ih).