The Central Savinja dialect (srednjesavinjsko nareÃÂje, srednja savinjà ¡ÃÂina) is a Slovene dialect in the Styrian dialect group. It is spoken in the central Savinja Valley in the basins of the Bolska, Paka, and Hudinja rivers east of the Upper Savinja dialect and west of the Central Styrian dialect, south of the Meà ¾ica and South Pohorje dialects, and north of the Eastern Upper Carniolan, Zagorje-Trbovlje, and Laà ¡ko subdialects. It includes the settlements of Trojane, à  pitaliÃÂ, Vransko, Topolà ¡ica, à  oà ¡tanj, Velenje, Frankolovo, Vojnik, and Celje.
The Central Savinja dialect has preserved accented short vowels. It does not have the change u > ü nor a > ÃÂ, the diphthongs ou and ei have monophthongized but ie and uo are pronounced, and there is limited akanye. Vocalic r has developed into ar and vocalic l into aw. The feminine singular instrumental ending for nouns and adjectives is -oj/-uj (in contrast to standard o).