Younger Romanisms in Slovene (based on the material of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas, volumes 11 and 12)

The article discusses the younger layer of Romanisms in Slovene (the corpus is based on the Slovene dialectal material as presented in the Slavic Linguistic Atlas, volumes 11 (reference questions 1729 –1857) and 12 (reference questions 1898 –1971)). Younger Romanisms in Slovene originate from one of the Young Romance idioms in contact with Slovene, i.e. Friulian, the Colonial Venetian dialects of Italian, and Standard Italian. Due to divergent phonetic developments a particular Romance lexeme shared by different Romance idioms can display an array of differing phonetic characteristics. These in turn provide the necessary methodology of differentiation between the different strata of Romanisms in Slovene.