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Also known as Štokavian, Štokavian dialect, Shtokavian dialect

thumb|Area where Shtokavian standard languages are spoken by the majority or plurality of population, 2005 thumb|Map of Serbo-Croatian dialects prior to the 16th-century migrations thumb|Map of Shtokavian subdialects prior to the 20th-century migrations

Key facts

Language.name
Shtokavian
Language.states
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia
Language.familycolor
Indo-European
Language.fam2
Balto-Slavic
Language.fam3
Slavic
Language.fam4
South Slavic
Language.fam5
Western South Slavic
Language.stand1
Bosnian
Language.stand2
Croatian
Language.stand3
Montenegrin
Language.stand4
Serbian
Language.dia1
Eastern Herzegovinian
Language.dia2
Eastern Bosnian
Language.dia3
Šumadija–Vojvodina
Language.dia4
Younger Ikavian
Language.dia5
Kosovo–Resava
Language.dia6
Smederevo–Vršac
Language.dia7
Zeta–Raška

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
dialect
Subclass of
Serbo-Croatian
Country
Montenegro
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dialect of
Serbo-Croatian
Commons category
Shtokavian Croatian language
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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections
Contents
  • Early history of Shtokavian
  • Earliest texts of Shtokavian dialect
  • Relationship towards neighboring dialects
  • General characteristics
  • Classification
  • Old-Shtokavian dialects
  • Prizren–Timok (Torlakian)
  • Slavonian
  • Eastern Bosnian
  • Zeta–Raška
  • Kosovo–Resava
  • Neo-Shtokavian dialects
  • Younger Ikavian
  • Šumadija–Vojvodina
  • Eastern Herzegovinian
  • Yat reflexes{{Anchor|Ijekavian|Ekavian|Ikavian}}
  • Ethnic affiliation of native speakers of Shtokavian dialect
  • Standard language
  • See also
  • References
  • Sources
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|Area where Shtokavian standard languages are spoken by the majority or plurality of population, 2005 thumb|Map of Serbo-Croatian dialects prior to the 16th-century migrations thumb|Map of Shtokavian subdialects prior to the 20th-century migrations

Shtokavian or Štokavian (; / , ) is the prestige supradialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language and the basis of its Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian standards. It is a part of the South Slavic dialect continuum. Its name comes from the form for the interrogative pronoun for "what": . This is in contrast to dialects that are exclusive to Croatian language: Kajkavian and Chakavian ( and also meaning "what").

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shtokavian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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