[6] It is spoken mainly in the Torre Valley in the Province of Udine in Italy, but also in western parts of the Municipality of Kobarid in the Slovene Littoral in Slovenia.

[8][9] The dialect is spoken mainly in northeastern Italy, in the province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, roughly along the Torre River (Slovene: Ter) from Tarcento (Čenta) upstream.

It also extends beyond this; it is bounded by Monti Musi (Mužci) to the north, by the Friulian plain to the west and south, and by Mount Joanaz (Ivanec) to the east, completely filling the area between the Natisone Valley and the Resian dialect.

Larger settlements in the dialect area include Montefosca (Črni Vrh), Prossenicco (Prosnid), Canebola (Čenebola), Cergneu (Černjeja), Torlano (Torlan), Taipana (Tipana), Monteaperta (Viškorša), Vedronza (Njivica), Lusevera (Bardo), Torre (Ter), and Musi (Mužac).

However, the microdialects of Porzus (Porčinj), Prossenicco, and Subit (Subid) have also undergone the *bàbica > *babìca and *zíma > *zīmȁ accent shifts, resulting in a new short stressed syllable.

[14] The morphology of the Torre Valley dialect differs greatly from that of standard Slovene, mainly because of influence of Romance languages.

[5] Today, because of the lack of a language policy and Italianization, the dialect has a very small number of speakers and is threatened with extinction.