Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Kajkavian dialect /kaɪˈkɑːviən/ (Kajkavian noun: kajkavščina; Shtokavian adjective: kajkavski, noun: kajkavica or kajkavština) is a dialect of the Serbo-Croatian language spoken by Croats in northwestern part of Croatia. It has low mutual intelligibility with the Shtokavian dialect. Some linguists consider Kajkavian to be a language of its own.All three Serbo-Croatian dialects derive their name from their reflex of the interrogative pronoun what. In Kajkavian, the interrogative pronoun is kaj.Kajkavian is spoken in rural areas of North Croatia, as well as in a few enclaves in Austria, Hungary, and Romania. The capital Zagreb has historically been a Kajkavian-speaking area, and Kajkavian is still in use by older speakers. Modern Zagreb speech however has been considerably Shtokavianized with Kajkavian influence left in traces such as the fixed stress-based accentual system without distinctive lengths, the merger of /č/ : /ć/ and /dž/ : /đ/ oppositions, and some lexical relics. Though its speakers are predominantly ethnic Croats and Kajkavian is generally considered a dialect of Serbo-Croatian, it is closer to neighboring Slovene than it is to Chakavian or Shtokavian due to the dialect continuum encompassing all south Slavic dialects and the coterminous location of Kajkavian/Slovene speakers.. }
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- Kajkavian_dialect abstract "The Kajkavian dialect /kaɪˈkɑːviən/ (Kajkavian noun: kajkavščina; Shtokavian adjective: kajkavski, noun: kajkavica or kajkavština) is a dialect of the Serbo-Croatian language spoken by Croats in northwestern part of Croatia. It has low mutual intelligibility with the Shtokavian dialect. Some linguists consider Kajkavian to be a language of its own.All three Serbo-Croatian dialects derive their name from their reflex of the interrogative pronoun what. In Kajkavian, the interrogative pronoun is kaj.Kajkavian is spoken in rural areas of North Croatia, as well as in a few enclaves in Austria, Hungary, and Romania. The capital Zagreb has historically been a Kajkavian-speaking area, and Kajkavian is still in use by older speakers. Modern Zagreb speech however has been considerably Shtokavianized with Kajkavian influence left in traces such as the fixed stress-based accentual system without distinctive lengths, the merger of /č/ : /ć/ and /dž/ : /đ/ oppositions, and some lexical relics. Though its speakers are predominantly ethnic Croats and Kajkavian is generally considered a dialect of Serbo-Croatian, it is closer to neighboring Slovene than it is to Chakavian or Shtokavian due to the dialect continuum encompassing all south Slavic dialects and the coterminous location of Kajkavian/Slovene speakers.".