# Southern Chakavian

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**Southern Chakavian** (Croatian: *južnočakavski dijalekt*) or **Ikavian Chakavian** is a dialect of the [Chakavian](/source/Chakavian) variety of Croatian. It is spoken in the area south of the [Central Chakavian](/source/Central_Chakavian) area, in a narrow strip of Dalmatian littoral and the neighbouring islands: outskirts of [Split](/source/Split,_Croatia) and [Zadar](/source/Zadar); [Korčula](/source/Kor%C4%8Dula), [Pelješac](/source/Pelje%C5%A1ac), [Brač](/source/Bra%C4%8D), [Hvar](/source/Hvar), [Vis](/source/Vis_(island)) and [Šolta](/source/%C5%A0olta). It is also present in the Northwestern part of [Istria](/source/Istria).

The speech of [Split](/source/Split,_Croatia) originally belonged to this dialect, but under the influence of Shtokavian immigrants and the standard Croatian promoted by state media, a local variant developed that has lost many of the characteristic Chakavian traits, even though part of the older population retains Chakavian in their speech.

Much speech in this dialect mixes Chakavian and Shtokavian features. It is assumed that, in the past, this dialect covered a larger territory in the hinterland, gradually being suppressed by constant migrations that brought Shtokavian speech at its expense.

Common Slavic [yat](/source/Yat) phoneme had a reflex of /i/ in this dialect. Thus we have *lip*, *divojka*, *mriža*, as opposed to Standard Croatian (Neo-Shtokavian) *lijȇp*', *djèvōjka*, *mrȅža*, all descending from earlier Proto-West-South-Slavic forms *lěpъ, **děvojka*, **mrěža*.

[Slavomolisano dialect](/source/Slavomolisano_dialect), as well [Southwestern Istrian](/source/Southwestern_Istrian), which are mostly or partly Western Shtokavian (*šća* and *šta*) with Ikavian accent, have a massive Southern Chakavian [adstratum](/source/Adstratum).

## References

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

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