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Šumadija–Vojvodina dialect (Serbo-Croatian:
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.Map showing the distribution of the dialect
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Distribution

The dialect is mainly spoken in
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or more exactly in most of the province of
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, as well as in
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, Mačva,
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, and western Serbia. Some of the speakers could be also found in neighboring areas of
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and
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.


History

In the 16th century, the dialect was spoken in entire Vojvodina,https://www.scribd.com/doc/8366669/Наречја-и-дијалекти-српског-језика as well as in some parts of present-day Hungary and Romania. During the Great Serb Migration from 1690, many speakers of the dialect were settled in the
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region. Most of these settlers were later assimilated. During the 18th and 19th century, the territorial distribution of the dialect was reduced due to the migrations of speakers of
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from the north and speakers of
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from the east.


Linguistic standard

Šumadija–Vojvodina dialect is a base for the standard Ekavian version of the Serbian literary language. It was also a base for the Serbian literary language in the 18th and 19th century, before the linguistic reform was introduced by Vuk Karadžić. During the reform, the standard variety of the dialect was adapted to be more similar to
Ijekavian Shtokavian or Štokavian (; sh-Latn, štokavski / sh-Cyrl, italics=no, штокавски, ) is the prestige dialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language and the basis of its Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin standards. I ...
dialect.


References


External links


Narečja i dijalekti srpskog jezika / Dialects of the Serbian language
(in Serbian)
About Šumadija–Vojvodina dialect
(in Serbian)
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