Phonological description of the local speech of Stržišče

The Štajersko dialect in Posavje is one of the least researched Slovenian dialects. It is considered as a transitional dialect because it combines older Dolenjsko and newer Štajersko dialectal features. In the form of a phonological description this article presents the phonology and the stress patterns of the local speech of the village of Stržišče and its surrounding area. This speech is a part of the Sevnica-Krško speech and because of its far-off position and daily migrations it even shows some features of the so-called mixed speeches. The nearest SLA point is Sevnica (Slovenian Linguistic Atlas, point 304), but this speech is already showing features of an urban speech