Shtokavian dialect

Shtokavian (?tokavian, ?tokavski) is the primary dialect of the Central South Slavic languages system, Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian.

Related Topics:
Central South Slavic languages system - Serbian - Bosnian - Croatian

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The ?tokavian dialect is spoken in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and the greater part of Croatia. The Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian standard languages are all based on the neo-?tokavian dialect. Its name comes from the form for interrogatory pronoun "what", which is "?to" in ?tokavian dialect.

Related Topics:
Serbia - Montenegro - Bosnia and Hercegovina - Croatia - Standard language

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The primary subdivisions of ?tokavian are based on 2 principles: one is whether the subdialect is old-?tokavian or neo-?tokavian, and the different ways the old Slavic phoneme jat has been changed. Generally, modern dialectology recognizes 7 ?tokavian subdialects (there are opinions that one or two subdialects more exist, but this is not universally accepted).

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