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The Torre Valley dialect or Ter Valley dialect (tersko narečje, terščina ) is the westernmost and the most Romanized Slovene dialect and is one of the most endangered dialects and is threatened with extinction. It is also one of the most archaic Slovene dialects, together with Gail Valley and Natisone Valley dialects, which makes it interesting for typological research. It is spoken mainly in Torre Valley in the Province of Udine in Italy, but also in western parts of Municipality of Kobarid, Slovene Littoral in Slovenia. Dialect borders Soča dialect to the east, Natisone Valley dialect to the southeast, Resian to the north, and Friulian to the southwest and west. The dialect belongs to the Littoral dialect group, and evolved from Veneitian-Karst dialect plane.

Geographical extension
The dialect is spoken mainly in northeastern Italy, in province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, roughly along river Torre/Ter from Tarcento/Čenta upstream. It also extends far more than just that; it is bounded by Monti Musi/Mužci to the north, by Friulian plain to the west and south and by mountain Joanaz/Ivanec to the east, completely filling the area between Natisone Valley and Resian dialect. Dialect thus also extends into Slovenia, to Breginjski kot in Municipality of Kobarid, Slovene Littoral, being spoken in villages, such as Breginj, Logje and Borjana. Bigger settlements include Montefosca/Črni Vrh, Prossenicco/Prosnid, Canebola/Čenebola, Cergneu/Černjeja, Torlano/Torlan, Taipana/Tipana, Monteaperta/Viškorša, Vedronza/Njivica, Lusevera/Bardo, Torre/Ter, and Mužac/Musi.

Historically, it included the village of Pers (Breg or Brieh), the westernmost ethnically Slovene village.

Accentual changes
Torre Valley dialect retains pitch accent on long syllables, which are still longer than short syllables. It has undergone only one accent shift on most of the territory—the *sěnȏ > *sě̀no accent shift. However, microdialects dialects of Porzus/Porčinj, Prossenicco/Prosnid and Subit/Subid have also undergone *bàbica > *babìca and *zíma > *zīmȁ accent shifts, resulting in a new short stressed syllable. Microdialect of Subit/Subid still retains length on formerly stressed vowel after the latter shift.

Phonology
Alpine Slavic and later lengthened *ě̄ turned into i(ː)e, in the south simplifying into iːə. Similarly, long *ō also turned into u(ː)o, simplifying into uːə in the south, while later lengthened *ò turned into ọː in the west, all the way up to åː in the south. Similarly, *ē also varies between ẹː and äː, but the distribution is more sporadic. Nasal *ę̄ and *ǭ evolved the same, but might have not merged with non-nasal counterparts in all microdialects. Syllabic *ł̥̄ turned into oːu~ọːu in the west and into uː in the east. Syllabic *r̥ turned into aːr in the west and ər in the east. Vowel reduction is not that common. Akanye is in some microdialects present for *ǫ̀ and *ę̀. Ukanye is more common and *ì simplified into ì̥ in the west and to ə in the east. In some microdialects, particularly the west, secondary nasalisation of vowels occurs from clusters vowel + final m/n.

Eastern dialects simplified *g into ɣ, while in the west, it completely disappeared. In far west (e. g. Torre/Ter), alveolar and post-alveolar sibilants merged into one. Consonant *t’ mostly turned into ć. Palatal *ń is still palatal, and *ĺ turned into j.

Morphology
Morphology of Torre Valley dialect is vastly different from that of Standard Slovene, mainly because of influence of Romance languages.

Neuter gender exists in singular, but is feminized in plural. Dual forms are limited to nominative and accusative case, while verbs do not have separate dual forms, although ending -ta is used for second person plural, and -te is reserved for vikanje. It has two future tenses: future I, formed with verb ti̥ẹ́ti̥ 'want' in present tense followed by infinitive, and future II, formed as future tense in Standard Slovene. It also has subjunctive, which is formed by ke + imperative form. Pluperfect still exists, as well as long infinitive. It also has -l, -n and -ć (equivalent to Standard Slovene -č) participle.

Writing and vocabulary
The dialect was written already in the Cividale manuscript in 1479, but was later not used in written form. Nowadays, because of the lack of language policy and Italianization, the dialect has a very reduced number of speakers and is threatened with extinction. In 2009, a dictionary of the Torre Valley dialect was published, based on material collected mainly at the end of the 19th century, but also in the 20th century.