Lužnica (region)

Villages located in the region include Babušnica, Bogdanovac, Bratiševac, Brestov Dol, Vojnici, Gornje Krnjino, Gornji Striževac, Gorčinci, Grnčar, Dol, Donje Krnjino, Donji Striževac, Dučevac, Draginac, Izvor, Kaluđerevo, Kambelevci, Kijevac, Linovo, Ljuberađa, Modra Stena, Provaljenik, Radoševac, Resnik, Stol, Suračevo (in Babušnica), Bežište and Šljivovik (in Bela Palanka).

Harsh living conditions and the economy in recent years has led to emigration to other parts of the country.

The recordings of the people speeches which were gathered in 10 years during the compiling of the dictionary are kept in the phonetic library of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology.

[1] The dialect kept the archaic forms, from the period when the Old Church Slavonic was transforming into the modern Serbian language.

Most of the sound changes today characteristic for the Serbian language, at this time still didn't occur (like palatalization or iotation).

Standard Serbian language has 7 grammatical cases, while Lužnica dialect has only 3: first - nominative, fourth - accusative, fifth - vocative.

[1] With the rapid decline in population, and schooling where people are taught the official standard of the language, the dialect is disappearing, too.

[5] It was noted in 1958 that in Lužnica and Nišava, the day after the saint feast days of St. Demetrius, Michael the Archangel and St. Nicholas are holidays, where cattle are left to rest and work is suspended, as the cattle are feared to become sick (called žabica).