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Their neighbors on the south-west are Italians, on the west and north Germans: history and placenames point to Slovenes having formerly held parts of Tirol, Salzburg and Austria Proper; and on the east they have given up south-west Hungary to the Magyars; to the south they have the kindred race of the Croats.
Slovene woke to a new life in the latter part of the 18th century.
In phonetics Slovene is remarkable for the change of the original lj dj into ~ and j (our y) respectively, of j into u, and for the coincidence of the old half vowels i and ii in a dull e.
Slovene territory settled from the 6th century on reached its greatest extent in the 9th century, covering an area from the Bay of Trieste to the Danube River in the north and Lake Balaton in the east.
Slovene settlement in Austria waned as early as the 13th century: German colonization reached the Villach Basin in Carinthia, the Graz Basin in Styria, and the Sora River flood plain in Carniola, and Italian colonization dominated the Friulian lowlands.
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