Chakavian dialect

Čakavian dialect is divided along several criteria. According to the reflex of old Slavic phoneme yat (which is explained on Shtokavian dialect page) it is categorized as: ekavian (northeastern Istria, Rijeka) ikavian-ekavian (islands Krk, Pag, Lika region) ikavian (western Istria, islands Brač, Hvar, Vis, Korčula, Pelješac) ijekavian (Lastovo island) Other linguists have combined phonetic and phonological criteria, resulting in 6 groups of subdialects: Buzet dialect ...

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Its coastline is 445 km long with islands making up 539.9 km. A smaller part ­of Istria also belongs to the Primorje-Gorski Kotar county of Croatia. Mirroring the bay of Venice across the Adriatic and the Gulf of Kvarner, the region is not far from the Julian Alps. The western most point is at Savudrija while the southern most is near Premantura, (Promontorio in Latin), on the local promontory Kamenjak. The terrain consists of a limestone plateau, much of which lacks water owing to its karst topography. The northeastern sectio ...

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Almost every city developed its own dialect; however, most disappeared before they were recorded, so the only information we have on them are some words borrowed into Croatian local dialects. The most important dialects we have information on are: Vegliot — a northern dialect, spoken on the island of Veglia (Krk) Ragusan — a southern dialect, spoken at Ragusa (Dubrovnik)See also:

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Istra is well connected with the rest of Croatia and Europe. Due to its connection with a wider European area, road development suitably covers all needs and contributes to a balanced development of the coastal area and the Istrian interior. Initially, the need for railroads in Istria was based upon fast development of industrial activities; shipbuilding, construction material, machine and electric industries, as well as Austrian military interests. After Vienna and Trieste were connected in 1876, the railway between Divača, (in toda ...

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The caves near Pula, Lim fjord--Sandalja and Roumald's cave, house stone age archeaological remains. Less ancient stone age sites, from the period between 6000-2000 BC, can also be found in the area. More than 400 locations are classified as bronze age, (1800 - 1000 BC), items. Numerous findings including weapons, tools, and jewelry), which are from the earlier iron era around the birth of Christ. The Istria peninsula was known to Romans as the terra magica. Its name is derived from the Illyrian tribe calle ...

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Over 205 000 people or 4.65% of the state population live here. Population density is 73 inhabitants per km² with an average age of 40.2 years for the entire population. Beside Pula/Pola which is the biggest urban area with 82 000, cities are Porec/Parenzo, Rovinj/Rovigno, Pazin/Pisino, Labin/Albona, Novigrad/Cittanova, Umag/Umago, Buzet/Pinguente, Buje/Buie, Vodnjan/Dignano. About 70.7% of the population lives in the urban areas. Municipalities are: Bale, Barban, Brtonigla, Cerovlje, Fažana, Gračišće, Grožnjan, Kanfanar, Karojb ...

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The Romans occupied the territory of Illyria between 229 BC and 155. The traders and the authorities spoke Latin and the inhabitants abandoned their language for Latin (in fact, the "Vulgar Latin"). It is noteworthy that there were several Roman Emperors of Illyrian origin: Aurelian, Diocletian and Constantine I. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Illyria continued to speak Latin and the language evolved relatively independent from other Romance languages, progressing toward a region ...

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Sites such as the Grotto of Beredine near Poreč, the underground river Foiba in Pazin is a popular geologic attraction. The Limski Kanal is the only fjord resembling structure in Europe outside of Scandinavia. The quarry near Rovinj is specifically designed for studying geology. The longest river, Mirna (Mirna=she, the tranquil one in the Croatian language) is only 32 km long with its mouth near Novigrad/Cittanova. Other rivers that pass through Istria include the D ...

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Once thought to be a language that bridged the gap between the Romanian language and Italian, it was only distantly related to the nearby Romanian dialects, such as the nearly extinct Istro-Romanian, also spoken in nearby Istria, Croatia. Some of its features are quite archaic; for example, Dalmatian is one of the two Romance languages (the other one is Sardinian) that did not palatalise /k/ and /g/ before /e/ and /i/: Latin cenare > Vegliot: kenur (to dine). Some of its words have been preserved as borrowings in South Slavic languages, such as Croatian, and also a few in Albanian.

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Since čakavian was the first Croatian dialect to extricate from Church Slavic matrix, both literacy and literature in this dialect abound with numerous texts-from legal and liturgical to literary: lyric and epic poetry, drama, novel in verses, as well as philological works that contain čakavian word-stock. Monuments of literacy began to appear in 11th and 12th century, and artistic literature in the 15th century. While there were 2 zones of čakavian: northern and southern (both mainly along Adriatic coast and islands, with centres ...

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Čakavian is the oldest Croatian dialect that had made visible appearance in legal documents — as early as 1275("Istrian land survey")[ http://www.istrianet.org/istria/history/istarski_razvod/index.htm ] and 1288 ("Vinodol codex"), the predominantly vernacular čakavian is recorded, mixed with elements of Church Slavic. Proto-čakavian can be traced back to 1100 and Baška tablet. Initially, čakavian dialect covered much wider area than today — the major part of central and southern Croatia, as well as western Bosnia and Herzegov ...

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