[1] The Buzet dialect is a natural transition between Chakavian, Kajkavian and the Slovenian language.
Initially some considered it part of the Kajkavian language area, in the past it was also classified (e.g. by Fran Ramovš) as a Slovene dialect, but other linguists, including Mieczysław Małecki and Pavle Ivić among others, managed to rightly define it as Chakavian and part of the literary Serbo-Croatian language.
[2][3] The primary features that separate Buzet dialect from the rest of the Chakavian dialects are in the development of the Common Slavic vocalism:[4] Prosodical system diverges from that of other Chakavian speeches (having lost, for example, the difference between long a short accented vowels).
[5] Another unusual feature is the usage of Kajkavian interrogative pronoun kaj "what", instead of the usual Chakavian ča.
The Buzet dialect can be divided into two sub-dialects, Northern (majority) and Southern (minority).