Selca dialect

The Selca dialect ("selško narečje", "selščina") is a Slovene dialect in the Upper Carniolan dialect group. It is spoken in the Selca Sora Valley, north of a line from Porezen to Mount Lubnik (1025 m), and south of a line running west of Zgornje Bitnje to north of Dražgoše to west of Zgornja Sorica.
Phonological and morphological characteristics.
The Selca dialect is essentially a subdialect of the Upper Carniolan dialect. It has mostly preserved pitch accent, has Upper Carniolan vowel characteristics (but short "i" and "u" in place of long), and considerable Upper Carniolan consonantal features (but without hard "l" > "v" and without "k g h" > "č ž/j š"). Voicing of obstruents is preserved in final position and the clusters "tk" and "tc" are preserved. Syncope is sometimes more pronounced than in the Upper Carniolan dialect, and syllabic "l m n" are found.