Southern Chakavian ( sh, južnočakavski dijalekt) or Ikavian Chakavian is a dialect of the
Chakavian variety of Croatian. It is spoken in the area south of the
Central Chakavian
Central Chakavian (also translated as Middle Chakavian; hr, srednječakavski dijalekt) is a dialect of the Chakavian variety of Croatian. It is spoken on the islands Dugi, Kornati, Lošinj, Krk, Rab, Ugljan (except the southernmost Southern Cha ...
area, in a narrow strip of Dalmatian littoral and the neighbouring islands: outskirts of
Split and
Zadar;
Korčula,
Pelješac,
Brač,
Hvar,
Vis and
Šolta. It is also present in the Northwestern part of
Istria
Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...
.
The speech of
Split originally belonged to this dialect, but under the influence of Shtokavian immigrants and standard Croatian promoted by the state media, a local variant that has lost many of characteristic Chakavian traits developed, even though a part of older population retains Chakavian in their speech.
Much speech in this dialect mixes Chakavian and Shtokavian features. It is assumed that in the past this dialect covered larger territory in the hinterland, being gradually suppressed by constant migrations who carried Shtokavian speech at its cost.
Common Slavic
yat phoneme had a reflex of /i/ in this dialect. Thus we have , , , as opposed to Standard Croatian (Neo-Shtokavian) ', , , all descending from earlier Proto-West-South-Slavic forms , , .
Slavomolisano dialect, as well
Southwestern Istrian, which are mostly or partly Western Shtokavian ( and ) with Ikavian accent, have a massive Southern Chakavian
adstratum.
References
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{{Chakavian dialects
Dialects of Serbo-Croatian