!!!Windisch

Windisch, Bavarian-Austrian pronunciation of the Middle High German 
word "wendisch" meaning "Slavonic"; it is still extant in the names of 
various Austrian municipalities such as Windisch Bleiberg, 
Windischgarsten or Windisch Minihof. The Slavists B.  Kopitar, 
F. S. Metelko and the Carinthian linguist and folklorist U. 
Jarnik (1784-1844) introduced the word "slowenisch" (Slovenian) into 
standard German, but in colloquial German "windisch" remained in use 
as a name for the dialects of the Carinthian and Lower Styrian  
Slovenes, which contain various loan words from German.


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