Central Chakavian (also translated as Middle Chakavian; ) is a dialect of the
Chakavian
Chakavian or Čakavian (, , , proper name: or own name: ''čokovski, čakavski, čekavski'') is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken by Croats along the Adriatic coast, in the historical regions of Dalmatia, Istria, Croatian L ...
variety of Croatian. It is spoken on the islands
Dugi,
Kornati
The Kornati archipelago () of Croatia, also known as the Stomorski islands, is located in the northern part of Dalmatia, south from Zadar and west from Šibenik, in the Šibenik-Knin County. With length and 89 islands, some large, some small, i ...
,
Lošinj,
Krk
Krk (; ; ; ; archaic German: ''Vegl'', ; ) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kotar county. Krk is tied with Cres as the largest Adriatic island, depending o ...
,
Rab,
Ugljan
Ugljan () is an List of inhabited islands of Croatia, island in northern Dalmatia, Croatia, and the first in the Zadar Archipelago. It is located northwest of the island of Pašman and southeast of the islands of Rivanj and Sestrunj. Separated f ...
(except the southernmost Southern Chakavian village of
Kukljica
Kukljica is a village on the island of Ugljan in Croatia, and the only naselje, settlement in the eponymous municipality. According to the 2011 census, there are 714 inhabitants, 98% which are Croats. The area of Kukljica also includes the Islet, ...
, exhibiting many shared features with Ugljan's otherwise Central Chakavian dialects)
Pag, on the land the cities of
Vinodol,
Ogulin
Ogulin () is a town in central Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 7,389 (2021) (it was 8,216 in 2011), and a total municipal population of 12,251 (2021). Ogulin is known for its historic stone castle, known as Kula, and the nearby ...
,
Brinje
Brinje is a settlement and a municipality in Lika-Senj County, Croatia. It is located about east of Senj and north of Gospić.
Geography
The town is formed around a castle called ''Sokolac'', which contains one of the most well preserved G ...
,
Otočac, the area around
Duga Resa
Duga Resa is a town in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is located about 65 km southwest of Zagreb and 100 km east of Rijeka.
Name
The earliest reference to Duga Resa is from the year 1380. There are several theories on how the then-villag ...
, part of Central and Northeastern
Istria
Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; ; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian: ; ; ) is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea. Located at th ...
(including
Čičarija dialect in Slovenian part), and
Municipality of Kostanjevica na Krki
The Municipality of Kostanjevica na Krki (; ) is a municipality in the traditional Lower Carniola region of southern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kostanjevica na Krki. It is part of the Lower Sava Statistical Region. It i ...
(
Oštrc,
Črešnjevec pri Oštrcu,
Črneča Vas
Črneča Vas (; ''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 70.) is a settlement in the Municipality of Kostanjevica na Krki in eastern Slovenia. ...
,
Vrtača,
Vrbje
Vrbje is a naselje, village and a municipality in Brod-Posavina County, Croatia.
History
The village of Vrbje was first mentioned in 1720. The local Roman Catholic Church of Saint Joseph was mentioned in 1758 at the time when it was still a wooden ...
) in Slovenia.
This dialect is peculiar for its mixed Ikavian–Ekavian reflex of Common Slavic
yat
Yat or jat (Ѣ ѣ; italics: ''Ѣ ѣ'') is the thirty-second letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet, old Cyrillic alphabet. It is usually Romanization, romanized as E with a haček: ''Ě ě''.
There is also another version of y ...
vowel, which was governed by
Meyer–Jakubinskij's law.
References
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{{Chakavian dialects
Croatian dialects
Dialects of Serbo-Croatian