The Bača subdialect (''baški govor'', ''baško podnarečje'') is a Slovene subdialect of the

Tolmin dialect The Tolmin dialect ( sl, tolminsko narečje, ''tolminščina'') is a Slovene dialect in the Rovte dialect group. It is spoken in the watersheds of the Bača and lower Idrijca rivers, as well as the reaches of the Soča River in that area, bounde ...

in the

Rovte dialect group The Rovte dialect group (''rovtarska narečna skupina'', ''rovtarščina'') is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The Rovte dialects are spoken in the mountainous areas of west-central Slovenia, on the border between the Slovenian L ...

. It is spoken around

Podbrdo Podbrdo (; it, Piedicolle, german: Untereck) is a settlement in the Municipality of Tolmin in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It lies in narrow valley of the Bača River, next to the Bohinj Railway line at the end of the longest railway tunnel ...

in the triangular area bounded by Bača pri Podbrdu,

Porezen Mount Porezen is a mountain of the outlying Alps located in Slovenia. It is the highest summit of the Slovenian Prealps. Geography The mountain belongs to the Gorizia Statistical Region. Access to the summit The suggested route for the mountai ...

, and Mount Rodica (1966 m).

Phonological and morphological characteristics

The Bača subdialect is a transitional dialect between the

Upper Carniolan dialect group The Upper Carniolan dialect group (''gorenjska narečna skupina''Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 12, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 2.) is a group of closely related dialects of Slovene. The U ...

and the

. Like the rest of the Tolmin dialect, it is generally characterized by

akanye Akanye or akanje ( be, аканне, russian: а́канье, ), literally "''a''-ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes or are realized as more or less close to . It is a case of vowel reduction. The most familiar ...

, but the local dialect of the village of Rut lacks this feature. The dialectologist Tine Logar has suggested that this may be due to the influence of German colonization. Another special feature of Rut, together with the villages of Stržišče and Podbrdo, is the merger of alveolar and palatal fricatives into alveolo-palatals: ''s/š'' > /ɕ/, ''z/ž'' > /ʑ/, a phenomenon known in Slovene as ''slekanje''. This phonological development has also been attributed to German influence.Logar, Tine. 1968. "Glasovne in morfološke posebnosti v govorici sloveniziranih nemcev." ''Slavistična revija'' 16: 159–168, p. 166.

References

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