Kajkavian
Kajkavian is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Kajkavian
- Language.states
- Croatia
- Language.ethnicity
- Croats
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Balto-Slavic
- Language.fam3
- Slavic
- Language.fam4
- South Slavic
- Language.fam5
- Western South Slavic
- Language.stand1
- Literary Kajkavian
- Language.iso3
- kjv
- Language.map
- File:Kajkavstina.png
- Language.mapcaption
- Kajkavian in Croatia
- Language.notice
Article
18 sectionsContents
- Name
- Classification
- Characteristics
- Phonology
- Vowels
- Consonants
- History of research
- Area of use
- Bednja variant
- Literary Kajkavian
- Vocabulary comparison table
- Kajkavian media
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Kajkavian is a South Slavic supradialect or language spoken primarily by Croats in much of Central Croatia and Gorski Kotar.
It is part of the South Slavic dialect continuum, being transitional to the supradialects of Čakavian, Štokavian and the Slovene language. There are differing opinions over whether Kajkavian is best considered a dialect of the Serbo-Croatian language or a fully-fledged language of its own, as it is only partially mutually intelligible with either Čakavian or Štokavian and bears more similarities to Slovene; it is transitional to and fully mutually intelligible with Prekmurje Slovene and the dialects in Slovenian Lower Styria's region of Prlekija in terms of phonology and vocabulary.