Northern Chakavian

Northern Chakavian
sjevernočakavski dijalekt
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Serbo-Croatian Chakavian Northern Chakavian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Northern Chakavian (Serbo-Croatian: sjevernočakavski dijalekt) is a subdialect of the Chakavian dialect of Serbo-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 Middle 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 *děvojka).

References

Dalibor Brozović (1988). Čakavsko narječje; Jezik srpskohrvatski / hrvatskosrpski, hrvatski ili srpski, (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: JLZ Miroslav Krleža. ISBN 953-0-30225-8.

Chakavian (6 dialects)

Buzet Northern Chakavian Southeastern Chakavian Southwest Istrian Southern Chakavian Middle Chakavian

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