Albanian Dialect(s) of Gorana: Genesis and Functioning

The article discusses genesis and functioning of the Albanian idiom in the multilingual microregion of (Montenegrin Littoral), which is of great interest from the perspective of the study of Slavic- linguistic and cultural interaction in the Western Balkans. introductory part contains anthropogeographic and sociolingistic information about the Serbo- -speaking community of Mrkovići and Gorana, and a brief description of the northwestern subdialect of the Albanian language. Further paragraphs investigate the case of the village Gorana, concentrating on the Albanian speech of the local bilinguals and the speech of Albanian who came to the Velja Gorana community from different border areas of Albania, Montenegrin and Krajina. In order to study the dialect differentiation and degree of accommodation dialects (a) in the speech of Albanian women and (b) in the speech of the local bilinguals, well as to find contact-induced features in phonetics and phonology, we analyse authentic dialect material using comparative and descriptive methods common for comparative linguistics, dialectology, the Balkan studies. on the results of the analysis, the Albanian speech of Gorana is described as a heterogeneous , where dialect differentiation remains intact without a degree of mixing or accommodation, and intensity of contact-induced language change varies at the level of individual speakers. Refs 31. 4.