Čakavian dialect

Chakavian
čakavica / čakavština
Native to	Croatia, a few in Slovenia (Račice, Kozina)
Ethnicity	Croats, Slovenes
Native speakers	c. 660,000 (2001)
Language family	Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Serbo-Croatian Chakavian
Standard forms	Burgenland Croatian
Dialects	Buzet dialect Southwestern Istrian Northern Chakavian Middle Chakavian Southern Chakavian Southeastern Chakavian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	chak1265
Distribution of Chakavian
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Chakavian or Čakavian /tʃæˈkɑːviən/, /tʃə-/, /-ˈkæv-/ (Serbo-Croatian: čakavski [tʃǎːkaʋskiː], proper name: čakavica or čakavština [tʃakǎːʋʃtina], own name: čokovski, čakavski, čekavski) is a dialect of the Serbo-Croatian language spoken by a minority of Croats. It has a low mutual intelligibility with Shtokavian. There is much internal diversity, to the point where intelligibility between the northern and southern varieties of Chakavian is low. All three main Serbo-Croatian dialects are named after their most common word for "what?", which in Čakavian is ča or ca. Chakavian is spoken mainly in the northeastern Adriatic: in Istria, Kvarner Gulf, in most Adriatic islands, and in the interior valley of Gacka, more sporadically in the Dalmatian littoral and central Croatia.