The Jaun Valley dialect (, podjunà ¡ÃÂina) is a Slovene dialect in the Carinthian dialect group. It is primarily spoken in the Jaun Valley of Carinthia, Austria as well as in Strojna and LibeliÃÂe, Slovenia. It is spoken west of a line from Diex to Völkermarkt to Eberndorf, east of Sittersdorf, and north of the Ebriach dialect. Major settlements in the dialect area are Griffen, Kühnsdorf, Globasnitz, Bleiburg, and Lavamünd.
The Jaun Valley dialect has pitch accent and there has been accentual retraction from final circumflexes. It lacks Slovenian palatalization, has partially preserved the Proto-Slavic nasal vowels, long à> a, Proto-Slavic a > ÃÂ, à Âa > wa, the phoneme /w/ is preserved, and à ¡Ã > à ¡. The addition of à ¡- before deictics in t- (e.g., à ¡tam for tam 'there'; known as à ¡tekanje in Slovene) is typical. The dialects contains a number of subdialects, primarily differing from north to south, but also from east to west to some extent.