Younger Ikavian dialect
Younger Ikavian (Serbo-Croatian: mlađi ikavski), also called Western Ikavian/Western Neoshtokavian Ikavian (Serbo-Croatian: zapadni ikavski/zapadni novoštokavski ikavski) and Bosnian–Dalmatian dialect (bosansko-dalmatinski dijalekat), is a subdialect of Shtokavian Serbo-Croatian spoken in Croatia in the Dalmatian Hinterland, in Bosnia and Herzegovina west of the river Bosna and Neretva,[1][2] and in the Bácska region of Hungary (inc. Budapest) and the autonomous province Vojvodina of Serbia. Most speakers use the Latin alphabet.
Younger Ikavian | |
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Bosnian-Dalmatian | |
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![]() Younger Ikavian dialect located geographically | |
Native to | Bosnia and HerzegovinaCroatiaHungarySerbia |
Region | BačkaCentral BosniaDalmatian HinterlandWestern Herzegovina |
Ethnicity | Croats |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
There are also isolated pockets where this dialect is spoken – small area south of Novi Vinodolski, Lika hinterland, the southern Croatian islands of Šolta, Brač, Hvar and Korčula and in central Slavonia.[1]
It is further divided into Ikavian Schakavian (Šćakavian; from šćakavski) and Ikavian Shtakavian (Štakavian; from štakavski).[2]
Since 2021, Croatia cathagorized the Neo-Shtokavian Younger Ikavian dialect to be Bunjevac dialect with three sub-branches: Dalmatian (also called Bosnian-Dalmatian), Danubian (also called Bunjevac), and Littoral-Lika.[3]
Footnotes
- Kapović 2015, p. 39.
- Kovačević 2000, p. 493.
- "Bunjevački govori".
Razlikuju se tri ogranka Bunjevačkih govora – podunavski, primorsko-lički i dalmatinski, a svi su kulturno bliski prema povijesnim, etnološkim i lingvističkim istraživanjima.
Bibliography
- Kapović, Mate (2015). Povijest hrvatske akcentuacije [The history of Croatian accentuation]. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska. ISBN 9789531509718.
- Kovačević, Marko (2000). "Duvanjski govor i njegove posebnosti" [The speech of Duvno and its peculiarities]. In Krišto, Jure (ed.). Duvanjski zbornik [The collection of papers of Duvno]. Zagreb-Tomislavgrad: Hrvatski institut za povijest–Naša ognjišta–Zajednica Duvnjaka Tomislavgrad. ISBN 9536324253.
- Lisac, Josip (2003), "Zapadni dijalekt - Novoštokavski ikavski dijalekt", Hrvatska dijalektologija 1 – Hrvatski dijalekti i govori štokavskog narječja i hrvatski govori torlačkog narječja, Zagreb: Golden marketing – Tehnička knjiga, pp. 50–76, ISBN 953-212-168-4
- Mujanić, Samra (2021). "Osnovne fonološke i morfološke značajke govora Jezera u sjeverozapadnoj Bosni" [The influence of migrations on the Neoštokavian Ijekavian subdialects in the Neretva region and in lower Herzegovina]. Croatica et Slavica Iadertina (in Serbo-Croatian). 17 (2): 591–605. doi:10.15291/csi.3548.