(last updated 2007-07-11) LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Han Steenwijk 2. E-mail address of requester: han.steenwijk @ unipd.it 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: njiva Description: The Gniva dialect of Resian Description: The Njiva dialect of Resian Prefix: sl-rozaj Comments: The dialect of Gniva/Njiva is one of the four major local dialects of Resian 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: The local variety of Resian as spoken in Gniva/Njiva, Lischiazze/Liscace and Gost/Gozd 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): 1. Jan I.N. Baudouin de Courtenay - Opyt fonetiki rez'janskich govorov, Varsava - Peterburg: Vende - Kozancikov, 1875. 2. Jan I.N. Baudouin de Courtenay - Materialien zur suedslavischen Dialektologie und Ethnographie: 1. Resianische Texte, St. Petersburg: Imperatorskaja Akademija nauk, 1895. 3. Tine Logar - "Rezijanski dialekt: glasoslovna skica", in: VIII. seminar slovenskega jezika, literature in kulture, Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za slovanske jezike in knjizevnosti, 1972. 4. Jan I.N. Baudouin de Courtenay (ed.) - Rez'janskij katichizis, kak prilozenie k "Opytu fonetiki rez'janskich govorov", Varsava - Peterburg: Vende - Kozancikov, 1875. 6. Any other relevant information: 1. The first description line makes reference to the Italian toponym, the second one to the Slovene toponym. 2. The former three bibliographical items describe the Gniva dialect as opposed to other Resian local dialects, whereas the latter contains the two oldest known texts written in this local dialect, dating from the 18th century. 3. A contemporary author expressing herself in the Gniva dialect is Ida Di Floriano. (file created 2007-07-11)