This paper presents a phonological description of the local dialect of Vrh pri Boštanju, a small village nearby larger towns of Boštanj and Sevnica, of the Posavje dialect of Slovenian. In the first part it details and explains the most influential extralinguistic factors (geographical, historical and sociopolitical) that contributed to reclassification of the dialect from the Dolenjsko to Štajersko dialect group, which means that through its development older and younger dialectal features were mixed and that is the main reason why this local dialect is today considered to belong to a group of so-called mixed speeches. The second part contains a phonological description that consists of diachronic and synchronic points of view. The descriptive-linguistic perspective presents the inventory of vowel, consonant and accent systems as well as the distribution of their elements in the system. The historical-linguistic point of view determines the origin of a single element, which enables reception of the described phonological system in the wider context of Slovenian language and its great dialectal diversity.
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