The research area of the master's thesis is dialectology, as I am researching the speech of the village of Trnje. Trnje is a Pannonian village in the municipality of Črenšovci, which was first mentioned in 1381. The speech in Trnje belongs to the Prekmurje dialects, which are part of the Pannonian dialect group. The speech of Trnje has not yet been described. Following introductory presentations of Trnje, the method of collecting materials and its analysis, in the theoretical part, I provide a brief historical overview of the development of vowels and consonants in the Prekmurje dialect. In doing so, I follow the findings of Matej Šekli, Marc L. Greenberg, Jakob Rigler, and Fran Ramovš. I also draw on the literature to highlight the importance of the Prekmurje dialect from both cultural and linguistic perspectives, as well as the relationship between the supradialectal Prekmurje dialect and the Prekmurje dialect itself. In the second, empirical part of the thesis, I provide a phonological description of the speech with examples from material I’ve collected and the differences in existing descriptive material of the speeches of the neighboring Prekmurje villages of Črenšovci, Dolnja, Srednja, and Gornja Bistrica, Gomilica, and Polana. The speech of Trnje shows reflexes that partly overlap with the speech of Črenšovci, partly with the speech of Gomilca. It is therefore an independent local speech.
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