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Most Croatian linguists regard Croatian as a separate language that is considered key to national identity, [37] in the sense that the term Croatian language includes all language forms from the earliest times to the present, in all areas where Croats live, as realized in the speeches of Croatian dialects, in city speeches and jargons, and in ...
Kajkavian [a] is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar. [3] [4]It is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, being transitional to the supradialects of Čakavian, Štokavian and the Slovene language. [5]
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Croatian language (15 C, 52 P) D. Dalmatian language (5 P) I. Istro-Romanian language (5 P) Italian language (20 C, 37 P) L. Language policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
[7] [8] [3]: 303–304, 430 However, due to discontent in Croatian intellectual circles, beginning in the late 1960s Croatian cultural workers started to refer to the language exclusively as 'the Croatian literary language', or sometimes 'the Croatian or Serbian language', as was common before Yugoslavia.
Kajkavian literary language gradually fell into disuse since Croatian National Revival, ca. 1830–1850, when leaders of the Croatian National Unification Movement (the majority of them being Kajkavian native speakers themselves) adopted the most widespread and developed Serbo-Croatian Shtokavian literary language as the basis for the Croatian ...
Chakavian or Čakavian (/ tʃ æ ˈ k ɑː v i ə n /, / tʃ ə-/, /-ˈ k æ v-/, Croatian: čakavski [tʃǎːkaʋskiː] [2] proper name: čakavica or čakavština [tʃakǎːʋʃtina] [3] 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 Littoral and parts of ...
While all three languages are relatively highly inflected, the further east one goes the more likely it is that analytic forms are used – if not spoken, at least in the written language. [citation needed] A very basic example is: Croatian – hoću ići – "I want – to go" Serbian – hoću da idem – "I want – that – I go"