The Bača subdialect is a transitional dialect between the
Upper Carniolan dialect group and the
Rovte dialect group.[4] Like the rest of the Tolmin dialect, it is generally characterized by
akanye, 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.[5][6] 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.[7][8] This phonological development has also been attributed to German influence.[9][10]
References
^Smole, Vera. 1998. "Slovenska narečja." Enciklopedija Slovenije vol. 12, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 2.