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Michael Manske's The Glory of Carniola has a remarkable post called "The Diabolicalness of Dialects" about the diversity of Slovenian dialects in general and a northwestern dialect called Resian in particular.
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I studied Russian sort of intensely in the early 80's and haven't done much with it since (sadly) -- but I have to say, when I listened to that snippet of Resian, it sure sounded easier to pronounce and less phonologically 'alien' (to an Anglophone perspective) than Russian.
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That Resian might be halfway comprehensible if the speaker weren't dropping "allora" every other word.
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I had never heard Resian spoken aloud before encountering the mp3 Carniola had linked to, and can attest that it is genuinely incomprehensible even to a native speaker of the Northern-Primorsko dialect of Slovene, geographically closest to Rezija.
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Slovenians in the Soca Valley Bovec for example, told me that they couldn't understand Resians, and they live about 12 km from the first Resian settlement in Uccea.
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Eric Hamp has done fieldwork on Resian (no surprise) -- he published a few impressions in that endangered languages volume from 10+ years ago (the name of which I can't recall since I mislaid my copy).
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