Northern Chakavian Explained

Northern Chakavian
Nativename:sjevernočakavski dijalekt
Speakers:?
Familycolor:Indo-European
Fam2:Balto-Slavic
Fam3:Slavic
Fam4:South Slavic
Fam5:Western South Slavic
Fam6:Chakavian
Isoexception:dialect
Glotto:none

Northern Chakavian (Croatian: sjevernočakavski dijalekt) is a dialect of the Chakavian variety of Croatian. It is spoken in eastern Istria, outskirts of Žminj and Pazin, Croatian Littoral up to Bakar, on the islands of Cres and northern Lošinj, north of Central Chakavian.

The speech of the major Croatian city Rijeka used to belong to this dialect, but under the influence of Shtokavian immigrants a local idiom developed that lost most of the characteristical Chakavian features.

In this dialect Common Slavic yat phoneme yielded /e/, and only exceptionally /i/ (e.g. divõjka 'maiden, girl' < Common Slavic Slavic languages: děvojka).

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