Chakavian

language

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In Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian language: Groupings, geography, and religion
…three main groups, named Kajkavian, Chakavian, and Shtokavian after the pronoun meaning “what” (kaj, ča, and što or šta, respectively), though the three dialects also differ in vowels, consonants, word forms, and vocabulary. Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina are entirely Shtokavian. Croatia uses Chakavian along the seacoast, Kajkavian in…
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In Slavic languages: The Western subgroup: Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene
They are distinguished from the Chakavian dialects of western Croatia, Istria, the coast of Dalmatia (where a literature in that dialect developed in the 15th century), and some islands in the Adriatic. In those areas ča (pronounced in English as cha) is the form for ‘what?’. A third main group…
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