Central Chakavian

Central Chakavian
srednječakavski dijalekt
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Chakavian Central Chakavian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Central Chakavian (also translated as Middle Chakavian; Croatian: 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 Chakavian village of Kukljica, exhibiting many shared features with Ugljan's otherwise Central Chakavian dialects) Pag, on the land the cities of Vinodol, Ogulin, Brinje, Otočac, the area around Duga Resa, and part of Central and Northeastern Istria, i.e. between Northern Chakavian and Southern Chakavian

This dialect is peculiar for its mixed Ikavian–Ekavian reflex of Common Slavic yat vowel, which was governed by Meyer–Jakubinskij's law.

References

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