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Middle Chakavian

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Indo-European Balto-Slavic Slavic South Slavic Western Serbo-Croatian Chakavian Middle Chakavian

Middle Chakavian (Serbo-Croatian: srednjočakavski dijalekt) is a subdialect of the Chakavian dialect of Serbo-Croatian. It is spoken on the islands Dugi, Kornati, Lošinj, Krk, Rab, Pag, and on the land the cities of Vinodol, Ogulin, Brinje, Otočac and the area around Duga Resa, 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

Middle Chakavian Wikipedia